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diuretic
Quite right. And that basic instinct is something we have to address. Someone "different" to our ancestors was a very real problem. They might kill or steal the food. So that evolutionary impulse made sense. Today it makes less sense But the impulse remains. And those would exploit the atavistic impulse for base political purposes remain.
That's why we have frontal lobes...To think and reason beyond our evolutionary impulses. But there's no accounting for the reasoning psychotics among us who would exploit those impulses for their own base ends.
Fascism has come to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. His name is Trump.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell...The New GOP motto.