'OUR' community

Every day on the news or in broadcast interviews, some real or would-be head honcho claims to speak for or about a 'community'. 'Community' seems to me increasingly to be becoming another mindless blurb word.

So what does the dictionary say?

Quote: A community is a set of people (or agents in a more abstract sense) with some shared element — in particular a group of people who live in the same area is a community. The substance of shared element varies widely, from a situation to interest to lives and values. The term is widely used to evoke sense of collectivism. Unquote.

So the honcho-babies (are pretending to)(know of the existence of) a 'sense of collectivism' amongst these myriad 'communities'? That seems to me to be the impression they wish to create. They can then engage in deep and meaningful dialogues with 'the leaders' of 'the xxxxx community' and go on to misrepresent their interpretation of the results as being binding on that 'community'. That then raises the question in my doubting mind as to how those 'leaders' were elected, what functions they were elected to perform and how those who feel the 'leaders' are failing in their proper performance of those functions can be replaced.

The very existence of a 'community' is divisive, if one is a member of the community and others are not, an 'us' and 'them' situation is immediately created. The 'thems' somehow generally manage to be in the vast majority and the 'us' group comes across as wanting to manipulate the 'thems' in ways the 'thems' have not approved.

So is not the moral of this story clear - ban the use of the word 'community' by anyone in authority, no matter how appointed or self-proclaimed?