Those of us who find value in music and in singing together do have something very important in common, despite whatever other differences we might have. Even the most belligerent know-nothing xenophobes and racists see themseves and their friends as downtrodden common working-folks ~ they simply misidentify their enemies when they buy into the ridiculous idea that their problems should be blamed on some other downtrodden group, usually folks even less privileged then themselves. ("We're broke because the poor people got all the money.")

If there is an actual "Them," it's the coldhearted servants of Mammon who don't care who and how many they trample upon to enrich themselves.

I don't think there are very many mergers-and-acquisitions specialists, investment bankers, Ponzi schemers, etc., who enjoy community singalongs.