We and Us

Us is a degenerate We, e. g. an arrested case of the latter. For, while We pluralizes some given, Us constitutes a mere opposition to it, casting it as a Them, e. g the Ku Klux Klan, in opposition to racial integration. Thus, as Nietzsche and Sartre each observes, the Us remains utterly dependent on the existence of its enemy, no matter how adamantly its 'freedom' from it is insisted upon. Thus, without the We of the Constitution, the U. S. Declaration of Independence could have remained a mere Us, locked into a perpetual struggle with the British forebearers.