The unified whole of the people

The center-left in Europe in the early 20^th century was just as supportive of imperialist policies as was the right, if not more so. When Liberal parties were in power in England and in Germany they promoted naval expansion as a way of binding the nation together and as a way of coutermanding the forces of class struggle that threatened to tear apart the unified nation. President Lincoln had attacked the forces of disunity; Prime Minister Gladstone and President Obama appeased them. 

The logic of the extractors is to threaten the stablity of the social order as a way of getting its liberal rulers to justify the exploitation of the weak and disenfranchised in the service of preserving the general peace. It becomes politically rational to heal the disuniting nation at the expense of some distant interest whose exploitation is not pressing on the urgent matters of state the way the forces of disunity are. 

The word 'kippehr' could mean 'to caulk,' to smoothe over the exterior with caulking or pitch for the sake of insulating the exterior skin and making of the entity a water-tight whole. It could refer to the act of inclusion into the reigning ideology. 'Kapparah' could be the opposite of 'karet.' If karet means ex-communication, then kapparah could mean in-communication or incorporation into the prevailing political ideology. The act of kapparah is the act of atonement in the strictest sense of the word. It is the act of making a person once again 'at one' with the dominant ideological system. Kapparah is the process of right consciousness, of making of the people a single whole, and of bringing straying individuals back into the unified whole of the people.