Aristotle was wrong. We are not political animals, we are fundamentally human animals. But political culture has undermined our virtues and exacerbated our vices. Ideology cannot account for biology; human sociality is not any political hue nor is it skin deep but in our genes. This is not to argue for one stance or the other but to point out that genuinely human sociality is obscured by politics and political visions of human belonging. We need to shed our political skin and try and think outside the box!