re: #124 calochortus

It’s my opinion that few people really realize how important the concept of ‘identity’ is. What the answer is when asked the question, “Who are you?”

People really, really need a positive view of themselves. They have to believe that, above all, they are not helpless.

Those on what is characterized as ‘The Right’ have lost much of their identity over the last few decades. Some of the forces that did this are good (civil rights, actual equality for all.) Some not so good. (‘Globalization’ and the reduction of many people to human resources rather than human beings.)

Since this was an unconscious process for the most part it’s not surprising that so many people have latched on to malignant tribalism in an attempt to gain a positive answer to the question, “Who are you?”