Dr. Wayne Pernell argues that America's strength came from bridging trust across race and religion, but leaders are retreating to tribal bonding. This regression threatens national stability and could reshape global leadership.
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And trust is actually primal, you know, and if we don't understand that, trust for the most part is, you know, animals trust, mammals trust each other. They have packs, they have groups, they have and humans have clans. And so your in group is your primary trust unit. It has been for a quarter million years. This experiment of America that we live in got us beyond our in group and gave us a mechanism to trust beyond our race, our religion, our. But it's not permanent and it's not a natural state of affairs. And as our leaders moved away from that bridging, what we call bridging trust that we have here in the country, it started to go back to this bonding, feudal trust. And so we're in a trust crisis right now. And if we don't get it figured out, there's some rough times ahead for this country and really for leaders across the world.