SDCT0008: Bridging individual and social psychology, we discuss what it is that binds individuals together into social groups: shared circles of accommodation. Some groups have small circles of accommodation toward one individual, a “strict father” authoritarian-type person. That individual-sized circle could be visualized as a “tiny bubble”. In authoritarianism, an entire nation accommodates to a single tiny bubble occupied by a lone patriarch, or a slightly larger bubble occupied by a ruling class of elitists or oligarchs. This contrasts with libertarianism, which has not just one but a multitude of tiny bubbles, each containing a lone patriarch, one for every household of the nation. Where authoritarianism is one tiny bubble shared by an entire nation, libertarianism is soap suds. Neither allows the combination of both “unity” and “diversity” — authoritarianism provides national unity without diversity, libertarianism provides diversity without unity. The combination of the two can only be gained through big circle social accommodation. We also describe big circle politics combined with small circle economics (democracy plus capitalism), and small circle politics with big circle economics (authoritarianism plus communism). The United States has been trending toward small circles all around (authoritarianism plus capitalism), while the “happiest nations on earth” — mostly Nordic nations — are big circles all around (democracy plus socialism), where both politics and the economy work for the big circle majority of citizens.