"The security of identity is bought by fevered belief in blood and soil."
Yeah, neo-liberalism and u.s. fundamentalism are joined at the hip and have been since the born again movement began in the early seventies. So far as I can see, this fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion, it is as Chuck notes, an identity movement. And the more social and personal destruction is visited upon Americans, the stronger it becomes.
The fundamental problem of the left's reaction is that they treat it as a religious issue.
j.