https://freerepublic.com/tag/demhivementality/ en-us Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:06:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4395729/posts Coordination emerges not primarily from explicit instruction but from shared ideological programming, financial incentives, and institutional culture. Joe Sobran (1946–2010), a longtime National Review columnist, essayist, and conservative thinker, portrayed the Left, as manifested by the Democrat Party, from the 1980s onward as a “Hive.” He believed that this metaphor was nearly perfect in characterizing a decentralized but instinctively coordinated politically driven collective that swarms in the same direction, enforces conformity, and advances the Left’s collectivist goals without needing a formal conspiracy or central command. Sobran’s hive analogy (echoed by many others) is apt precisely because it captures something that... American Greatness https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4395729/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:06:42 GMT