A culture, derived from Puritans, holding universal egalitarianism as a tenet, can be hijacked(pope-soros) by unreciprocating ethnocentric outgroups; moral inversion can follow. It can be different if reciprocation changes, i.e. is focused;  involvment, as lawmakers, occurs; and cultural communication via memes increases. Or more eloquently: He who controls the banter controls the memes. He who controls the memes controls the media. He who controls the media, controls your minds. They can and should choose not to comply, like Virginians.  Universal egalitarianism is flawed.