As a country, the concept of community generally means that the intent, resources, and needs are common and define the identity of participants and their degree of cohesiveness.  An integral part of community is centralized governance that serves all the people equally and it requires  shared sacrifice that gives a population a cause to coalesce around to guarantee the needs of all the people are met. For the past 30 years,  Republicans have portrayed the concept of government that meets the needs of all the people as overreaching and an intrusion into people’s personal lives, and they methodically attempted to eliminate government to replace it with a plutocracy to serve the needs of the wealthy.