Sharing an article: ingroups and outgroups

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.

The left are playing exactly the same game, just many seem blind to it. They also seem surprised when it is done back to them 

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.

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.