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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t debate ideas anymore, we debate loyalties.  [/quote]
Whew. This says it all. Whoever you are, you’ve nailed it.[/quote]
+100000[/quote]

People are tribal.  As more an Americans identify less with a religious identity, they replace their tribalism with a political identity.  [/quote]

And what happens when religious identity and positions are intertwined with politicians and policy? ie the Evangelicals [/quote]

What about it? The point is the amount of people with strong religious identity is declining. Secular religion is the new wave.[/quote]
Yet you ignore the fundamentalism and evangelicalism rampaging through our country courtesy the Republican Party. Why is that, why do you seek to pretend that reality isn’t what it is? [/quote]

NP - even accepting that religious identity remains more significant for people on the right, the observation seems to be that people on the left are behaving in ways that seem religious / tribal (e.g., the pressure to confirm viewpoint, shaming, ostracizing non-conformists).  These are all “tribal” behaviors.  Us v Them.  [/quote]

One side isn’t trying to exterminate the other, though. [/quote]

I will take this as conceding that Dems and Rs are essentially the modern equivalent of antagonistic tribes, each using similar tactics to enforce in-group v out-group identity.  [/quote]

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