Exactly! The higher power, according to AA, could be anything except YOURSELF. So since you’re “insane” and your “higher power” could be anything...say your bed pan in detox,your AA group becomes the de facto higher power with a “group conciousness.”
We are talking collectivism....FASCISM.
I don’t have any experience with AA philosophy or mentality, but I would like to note that Beck routinely criticizes Obama’s “Collective salvation” concept as “pure evil” and notes that it is the springboard into social justice.
His message on his radio show is that Jesus Christ saves you individually and is as far from groupthink mentality as anyone I hear.