re: #481 jaunte

Yeah, that’s really the point I’m trying to make; it’s politicians and propagandists trying to create a false sense of unity and group identity where there isn’t one, and denying the real interdependence.

You see a lot of this from the GOP aisle, the ‘real America’ bits, the talk about the ‘job creators’, trying to create this idea where only some of the people in this country are actually interdependent and the others are just parasites. The truth, is, of course, that some dude out in Montana is dependent on me in New York, and vice versa. We’re all part of the same society, we all have the same nation, we all need each other.

But that’s ‘collectivist’. It’s funny that the people promoting this stupid pseudo-tribalism are also the most aggressively anti-collectivist.