It's like a some kind abstract form of 'cartel', i.e. "I support you, you support me".
It's called "families" and "communities" and is the basis for human civilization. My children aren't going to grow up around poor third world people, nor marry them or raise their own families with them. Some poor third world person isn't going to come to my aid if I'm in trouble. They're not going to be my friends, my coworker, or even the guy who might find my phone and return it to me. They won't be voting for the government that governs me. Any rational person has tremendous incentive to make sure the people closest to them, and more broadly the people in their own body politic are cared for before others.
Communities are not "political cliques." The vast majority of collaboration happens with people immediately around you. That's why people go to San Francisco to do startups and not to Boise Idaho.
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It's called "families" and "communities" and is the basis for human civilization. My children aren't going to grow up around poor third world people, nor marry them or raise their own families with them. Some poor third world person isn't going to come to my aid if I'm in trouble. They're not going to be my friends, my coworker, or even the guy who might find my phone and return it to me. They won't be voting for the government that governs me. Any rational person has tremendous incentive to make sure the people closest to them, and more broadly the people in their own body politic are cared for before others.
I would argue that collaboration is the basis for human civilization. Political cliques, on the other hand, surely are the basis for war.
Communities are not "political cliques." The vast majority of collaboration happens with people immediately around you. That's why people go to San Francisco to do startups and not to Boise Idaho.