One Country, Five Tribes

People often talk about other countries  governance in terms of their tribal compositions. As this Presidential term unfolds, keep in mind the tribes scrambling for the turf on the homeland.

So we have five tribes stuck on the same continent.

We have the working class producers, fixers, maintainers , and cleaner uppers

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We have the knowledge and service workers who write the code, enforce the process and move the payments and sales, count it, categorize it and send a cut to Uncle Sam. They also produce reports to provide evidence of wrongdoing by their companies if the government decides to demand payment beyond taxes.

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We have the Tribe With the Bad Luck to Not Be Born Into the Other Ones. The poor in skills, parents, spirituality, education , assets and useful networks of people. Best shot is the last part of the melting part that works , the military.

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We have the government workers who attach themselves to the private sector for sustenance. A few do things that are actually in the constitution . like war and postal service and census. The rest are there to help.

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And we have the elites and their shock troops of media, academia, and politicians. Seen arranging the world for the rest of the tribes at places like Davos. Their plans take care of their well being and sometimes a selection of the other tribes, paid for by the unselected tribes.

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Curmudgeon (Reserve Status), Corporate Refugee, Proud Grandfather, Small Business Advisor and Salvage, Heinlein American

5 Responses to One Country, Five Tribes

  1. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    Nice analysis TCK1101. I agree with segregating the tribes by ideology and to a lesser degree social/birth status. I may put up a piece later about how income brackets are useless for socioeconomic analysis.

    It should be possible for the tribes to coexist within the framework of a functioning Constitution that limits tribe’s abilities to interfere with the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of the other tribes. I think we’ve seen the breakdown of that structure and nowhere is it more apparent than the last tribe in your article.

    • TKC1101TKC1101 says:

      In some places , tribes are where you were born, in America is more of a mix, where you work and what you do may supercede your birthplace and positioning over time.

      Does ideology drive people or is it a result of their journey in life? I never can figure that one out, it is like particle/wave theory to me.

  2. AvatarEThompson says:

    “Does ideology drive people or is it a result of their journey in life?”

    Personal experience tells me it is very much about the journey in life. I look at my four closest girlfriends who grew up with me in a very affluent suburb of Detroit. We were all graduates of Michigan, Vanderbilt, or Ivies.

    I am the only one who permanently left the Midwest for NYC, CA, and FL, but I am, by far, the most politically conservative of them all.

    This is why:

    1. First girlfriend covered the WH for the Washington Post but is back at Detroit Free Press writing negative articles about charter schools. Couldn’t even begin to start a conversation with her about Betsy DeVos without creating an incendiary discourse.

    2. Second girlfriend is married to a chief exec at GM and certainly supported the bail-out. He is a Stanford MBA so I did give him some heat on the economic principles of this hijacking of taxpayer dollars; the conversation did not end well.

    3. Third girlfriend has, unfortunately, given birth to autistic children and relied upon the govt to support all of the medical treatment her sons require. No judgment here; but she did participate in INF and didn’t take into account the high statistics of multiple births. I give her nothing but positive reinforcement because I feel so sorry for her, but her family does not!

    4. Fourth friend suffered through a terrible divorce between her parents when we were in high school and she has now (as the daughter of two prominent doctors in Bloomfield Hills, MI) had a child out of wedlock.

    My gal pals and I seemed to have everything in common growing up but I do feel like a stranger in a strange land whenever I go back for a Wings or Tigers game. ):

  3. AvatarEThompson says:

    Hey, BDB, I need an edit button here because I made a typo. What gives?

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