We and Us

The We-Us grammatical distinction of Subject-Object corresponds to the experiential contrast of active-passive.  Thus, for example, the 'general' happiness of Utilitarianism is that of an Us--the locus of its calculus is exclusively the members of a collective qua affected by an action, and not at all the agency that produces it.  Sartre goes further to show how an inert Us can be formed via the positing of an antagonistic They, upon which its identity and solidarity is thus dependent.  His most notable application of that analysis is to anti-Semitism, but the breeding of Nationalism via the positing of an enemy is familiar as a pervasive political strategy.  In contrast, typically uniting a We is an internally generated common goal.