"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State....Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit...is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
It exists under different shapes in all governments...but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, & is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension,...is itself a frightful despotism."
--George Washington
Desire for community is part of our nature & this spirit of community is being leveraged to divide and control us.
It's time for it to stop.