Right Wing Political Tribalism — They Choose Their Own Reality
(and they’re running out of people to hate)
Conservatives have long-held an attitude of supporting their candidates, no matter what. Unlike liberals, that are often very selective and disagree with some of the candidate’s positions, right wingers line up to vote, no matter how bad the candidate is. If you doubt this, just look at who they voted for in 2016 and their list of rather pathetic Republican representatives now. Many of those that take a right wing stand have felt left out of just about everything. They lack social skills, are often lower in the education area, and have been part of a generational culture to dislike anyone that isn’t “white” and their cherry picked version of Christianity. The Tea Party united them in their ideologies and trump came along and made them feel as though they were a member of a “tribe.” Sadly, it is a tribe of losers and morons that are devoted to hate. They began with Muslims, then Mexicans, then any Latinas, then Black Americans, and now they are attacking Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. There is one key theme that runs as a thick thread through all of this — the right wingers political tribalism is just hate of everyone not like “them,” and that is NOT what America is all about.
In an Atlantic article: The Threat of Tribalism
“Even at the country’s founding, Americans were a multiethnic, polyglot mix of English, Dutch, Scots, Irish, French, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Greeks, and others. They tended to identify far more strongly as Virginians or New Yorkers than as Americans, complicating any effort to bind the new nation together with common beliefs. Early America was also an unprecedented amalgam of religious denominations, including a variety of dissenters who had been hounded from their Old World homes.
The Constitution managed to overcome these divisions. The way it dealt with religion is illustrative. Colonial America had not embraced tolerance; on the contrary, the dissenters had become persecutors. Virginia imprisoned Quakers. Massachusetts whipped Baptists. Government-established churches were common, and nonbelievers were denied basic civil and political rights. But in a radical act, the Constitution not only guaranteed religious freedom; it also declared that the United States would…
