Love

It is clear (at least to me) that ethnie emerged specifically as a means to solve the fundamental human problem of trust, without which politics is impossible.  From an individualistic perspective, politics is fundamentally irrational, because it is fundamentally irrational to trust another person.  It is also fundamentally irrational from an individualistic perspective to sacrifice your welfare or your life for someone else, especially if they are not directly related to you.  Politics is fundamentally about love and loyalty to persons, groups and places, and a willingness to sacrifice yourself for what you love.  Conversely, politics is fundamentally about hate, especially modern politics, where the concrete and the particular have been hollowed out leaving only abstract ideology.  Am I the only person who has been almost run off the road by someone with a "Coexist" bumper sticker?