Hive Insect and Democrats
Enforced Alignment. Once a quorum is reached by the swarm, the entire group moves to the new site as one unit without further debate.
Lethal Competition. New queens are often decided by literally fighting to the death or executing rivals in their cells.
Driven by evolutionary survival; workers forgo reproduction entirely to support the queen's offspring.
In modern political discourse, the term
"hive mind" is frequently used as a critique from political opponents. Democrat critics often use the hive analogy pejoratively to imply a lack of independent thought, forced political correctness, or an insistence on group conformity.