So many of then keep saying 'we are a community", "our little community" and so on. Who is this "community"?, the country?, the state?, the town?
Politicians love saying for 'the community" and "us the community" like it's some kind of buzzword. I think this is just some tribal mentality of us versus them.
usually they mean their church or town but I think I have maybe heard it as high as the national level but feels like most of the time I think its about the local one. Don't think I have ever heard us the community. Sounds wierd to my ear. I think like anything it can be tribal when taken to far. Its like patriotism is not totally bad. I think its when its false or inscincere that you really get bad things. When foundational good things are ignored about a society to just make a blanket we ware great and everything we do is fine even if we break our own rules. Its like the flag wavers in the us vs folks who talk about the constitution. One is just a nationalism for nationalisms sake and another is talking about the foundation of the society and how it involves rights and democratic structure.