In an earlier post, I defended Andrew Breitbart (who probably doesn't need me to defend him) against a snarky left-wing remark by John Dean that he was some sort of tribalist:

Now, while they love accusing people who disagree with them of "tribalism," I suspect this might stem from the fact that people like Glenn Greenwald and John Dean are actually bigoted cultural tribalists themselves. So they naturally assume that those who disagree with them are enemies -- people from another "tribe."

Does tribalism necessarily have to beget tribalism? In the United States? What if you're just an American? I wouldn't go so far as to call that membership in a "tribe" because I like to think I am living in a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, free country where I don't have to see myself as a member of any tribe. But even if we assume that American citizenship has its tribal aspects, what if you're just an American who doesn't want to belong to an additional tribe? I would submit that if people like Andrew Breitbart belong to a "tribe," it is one which has largely been aided, and abetted and created by tribal warfare started by people who consider themselves a rival "tribe."

This sucks, bigtime.

Identity politics is tribalism.

The problem for me is that despite my reasoned dismissal of the idea of conservative "tribalism," I worry that there is such a thing. Tribalism makes my skin crawl, and while I realize many people want to belong, I don't like tribes, because I abhor groupthink, which is the next thing to the mob. And if you don't like mob thinking and say so, you will only be hated by the mob.

Sheesh. I guess that makes me a "libertarian pansy." Is there a tribe for that too? Let me know so I can avoid it. I'd probably be bored. (Probably because my father was born to a frontier family of homesteaders, and my grandmother was more of a man than most men today....)

But wait! It occurs to me that if there's a libertarian pansy tribe, they might need their own flag. And while I hate to re-wave old false flags, it's been some time since I've featured it here, and as no one flies it, I thought maybe I should dust it off.

True, I never called it the "Libertarian Pansy Flag" before, but then, this wasn't really my idea and I'm ever the opportunist always willing to help supply people with their Goddess-given rights!