> If my tribe is not weighed down by the parasites and leeches... <
Oh, but you will be weighed down by those folks. Because your tribe is losing its voting power, while the other tribes are gaining.
America has always had its “tribes”...Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc. In the old days that was played down. An immigrant grandfather saw himself as Polish-American. His son saw himself as an American, of Polish heritage.
And his son sees himself as an American, the same kind of American as is the grandson of a Chinese immigrant.
But now the different tribes are playing up their differences. La Raza, BLM, etc. So nope, it doesn’t look good long-term.
(Again, sorry for the pessimism. Maybe it’s due to the cheap coffee I’ve been drinking lately.)
All kinds of really nasty things happen in a civil war.
Not too many Serbians hanging around in Croatia these days...