Reply #32: It falls into the category of bad tribalism. The worst of it. So too if [View All]

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the cohesive group that scapegoats is put in place solely to give power to elites (which is the same pattern of scapegoating and hurting those outside your narrow group of elites and the pattern of exploitation repeats and repeats). The natural world is like that. The way social groups work it repeating patterns too. Patterns that repeat. Kaos theory. That is what nature is. Solar explosions follow a turtle pattern with little round blob and bigger round blob attached. the bigger blob is the smaller blob vis a vis the sun. Humans are animals & socially their patterns are repeated: think of the blogosphere and it's power of millions repeating ideas and how they work there way out & up. We work against nature when we have civilizations and police forces and all. It takes a lot of work to supress the scapegoaters, the criminals, the exploitation, the bias and predjudice. We work against some forms of tribalism..the bad stuff and promote some of the good forms of tribalism (in Canada you are connected if you use the same health care system as the middle class & poor if you are rich..and it feels really good..and is good health care.. and you own that good feeling cause you pay taxes everytime you send your teenager to the mall with money).

The government you elect chooses what the nature of the patterns will be. *WH seems to be working overtime to get the bad tribalism out there. And letting infrastruture, fair play in business, democracy, a boost up for the struggling poor, rebuilding after Katrina, health care for Americans, etc... fall completely apart.

Their choice.

You too get to choose what the repeated patterns that form American culture will be (cause it will be repeated ..either the scapegoating or the altruism). Your choice. It matters a great deal how you vote. I'd vote against the idea of scapegoating if I were you. Forget the 1890s. Seems the *WH wants to take America back to a time before monotheism (which taught scapegoating was bad - Jesus said "blame me instead of your neighbour").