If, as I suspect, at the end of the day, most Oklahomans will conclude that the events of the last year mostly vindicated the judgment of the governor and the
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Right Thinking: Tribalism tearing at nation’s seams
Andrew C. Spiropoulos
The inexcusable mob violence that plagues our nation, reaching even into the sacred precincts of our national legislature, is the concrete manifestation of a profound social illness. If we do not understand and treat the cancer that is eating its way through our communal fabric, it will kill our society.
Our problem is not political disagreement – any democracy expects, and should welcome, political disputes, even heated ones. The sickness develops when political conflict hardens into social tribalism or, as sociologist James Davison Hunter, in 1991, famously entitled his seminal work, culture wars. Hunter argued that Americans were sorting themselves into two tribes, the Progressive and the Orthodox. The Progressive, he argued, believes truth evolves and depends on particular circumstances, while the Orthodox – who consist of many different faiths – believe truth is unchanging and divinely inspired.