'Hidden Tribes' report shows poor prospects for 'Exhausted Majority'

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/hidden-tribes-report-shows-poor-prospects-exhausted-majority
MGB:  This is an old meme. U.S. News did a survey on tribes in society 15 years ago. People have been committing sociology in this area for quite some time. My old teacher, the late Aaron Wildavsky even found a partnership with Mary Douglass to study grid-group theory, which shows four basic tribes in any society. 

This all predates the Internet. Populism is an incarnation of this, as are bosses insisting on employees voting their way before the secret ballot. My ancestors, the Pilgrims were another example, as is Protestantism as a whole and the Humanist v. Traditionalist debate and the Orthodox v. Reform movement in Judaism and the question of Heaven. Oddly, Jesus was a Reform Pharisee. No wonder they executed him.

To use the Theory of Douglas and Wildavsky, heresy is misbehavior for Hierarchs but demands exclusion among Egalitarians, who don't believe in rules, just excommunication. Berry is an individuals. She thinks for herself. Despots (Authoritarians) are the people who insist on their own rule. The Church thrives on despotic action by an elite, asexual clergy. They certainly don't want subgrouping among the faithful, who are their subjects.The Hidden Tribes also feel ruled by Despots in both parties. Abortion, which is essentially settled at the status quo, is an issue around which Despots manipulate the faithful. The faithful. don't form their own groups. The simply hope for a hero to lead them into a more Egalitarian way of life, one without the fear of heresy. Heroes are the people who transform the boundaries. It is why they are killed or killed off..