Why Do People Like To Belong

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People like to belong. We all do it. Including me. Liberal, Progressive, Green, Socialist, Bernicrat, and whatever else. Names and labels do not describe the struggles people feel. Calling yourself a liberal when your car breaks down and you fear loosing your job because you can't get to work falls under no name other than oppressed. We have become an oppressed people put "in our place" by the rich and powerful. When are turned against each other, made to blame each other, and have become so dis-fragmented that we only care about ourselves, because it's hard to care about others when you are worried about surviving.

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