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Or that fascist ideas tap into some primal root of our consciousness like a disease, latching on like an addiction that we are powerless to fight. In my mind tribalism is inherent to the human condition. Being ready to go off and violently slaughter people who aren't our kin is the very reason why our lineages exist today and why you and I have had millions of generations of parents surviving long enough to produce offspring. We are directly descended from the most violent and most tribalistic of humans, as the more peaceful lineages would have long since been killed off by our ancestors who practiced coordinated violence.

It doesn't take much to push people back into this primal level of thinking. We are predisposed to follow a charismatic leader, predisposed to follow a religion and adhere to it without any weighing of its systems with that of other religions or thinking critically about our beliefs, predisposed to fear the unknown 'other' rather than welcome them and their ideas. Millions of years of selective pressures have created who we are and how we behave toward one another, it's no surprise that there are some serious growing pains toward adapting to this new world where we attempt to treat others as equals rather than threats. Same sex marriage was only legalized five years ago in the US, after all.