I think that the primitive human instinct to see 'us and them' is dangerous and arch manipulators of this propensity towards tribalism can be very dangerous indeed. I am thinking of people like Hitler, Trump and Farage.
I have yet to see a left-wing leaning democratic government - not a Communist dictatorship - separate small children from their parents and incarcerate them in squalid conditions, without adequate supervision or safeguarding,as has happened in Trump's USA. Or shoot unarmed citizens, offering no threat to anyone, in their cars as happened in Minneapolis. The two are not comparable in outcome.
All political parties exist by othering the others, it dosen't matter whether they're right or left wing or even centre parties.
As I feel very different from most peope on here, I feel that I'm often alone here too, I dont feel part of somekind of autustic umbrella, or if I am then I'm definately on the edge catching the drips. Here feels like any other group I've been involved in, I'm not part of its mainstream and I'm unwilling to try and make myself "fit in". I often feel I'm to weird for the weirdos!
