A Path Forward: Reflections on 2020 as the Election Nears

But the layers of this particular onion are worth peeling. “Hidden Tribes,” a report issued by More in Common, a nonprofit organization, identified seven distinct political groups within America. Five of the seven tribes – two-thirds of the American public – sit squarely between two loud, superpolitical wings. More in Common refers to the five tribes as the “exhausted majority.”

In an article that appeared recently in Greater Good Magazine, Sahar Habib Ghazi opined that the real divide in our country is between the wings and the exhausted majority – not between Democrats and Republicans, or even progressives and conservatives. For all the angst and noise, she concluded, Americans aren’t really interested in politics. They are busy living their lives.