• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    The level of tribalism in the US is amazing.

    I’m reasonably sure that loyalty is indoctrinated very early in a child’s life to ensure that tribalism persists from generation to generation. That loyalty is absolute and it is what a person builds into their identity: “I’m American. I’m [state]. I’m Red/Blue…”

    No matter what actions the tribe takes if they offend your own morals then your morals are wrong.

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      I’m reasonably sure that loyalty is indoctrinated very early in a child’s life to ensure that tribalism persists from generation to generation. That loyalty is absolute and it is what a person builds into their identity

      We’ve had 50 years of conservative talk radio and 30 years of Fox News.

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        • most of the msms were never discussing left leaning politics, its mostly right wing and alot of copaganda based films and shows(includes similarly militaryganda, its to reinforce male hierarchy, mostly straight and christian in one form or another), or center right. they never dare say anything about “not honoring the troops”.
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        And daily pledges of allegiance at school (which is the indoctrination I was alluding to) and, frankly scary, hero worship of the military.

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      Americans are absolutely cream filled with tribalism. even when they become ‘communists’ or ‘anarchists’ it still tends to feel tribal faschy and awful. it makes organizing them high impossible to do without lying.