Many people seem to spend a lot of time playing to their base; only rarely interested in different perspectives, not to mention other points-of-view. Few ever really consider reaching out to those outside their base.
There is something about 'your base' that seems to stifle curiosity, preferring instead self-proclaimed grandiosity.
This seems to be a fundamental way groups work in order to maintain themselves. But, cultivating your base also seems to have a more sinister side and is perhaps why it so easily seems to result in viewing others as enemies and it appears, at times, to actually create them for you.
Not confined exclusively to political contexts, I have seen this dynamic in many other types of groups of which I have been a part as well.
In other words, 'base' thinking is something to be wary of.
