The oldest strategy in the world

[kentuck]

Divide and Conquer.

So long as you can keep the people divided, nothing can be fixed or resolved. When your "team" hates the other "team", there is nowhere to go. That is a strategy that Trump is using every day.

He wants to declare all Democrats as "terrorists". Democrats are the cause of all our problems, he says. He calls a mayoral candidate in NYC a "communist" and threatens to cut off all funding to the city if he is elected their Mayor. At the same time, he promises $20 billion dollars to a strongman friend in Argentina. He is against his own people and supports every crook and dictator in the world.

In Trump's world, Democrats are the "enemy". There is no punishment too strong for them. The media is unable or unwilling to tell the truth about Donald Trump. They pretend that all is "normal". If they do not use their freedom of the press, they will lose that freedom.

Trump has united his Party, his cult, against the Democrats at every instance. He has effectively divided the country into partitions, which will take a long time to repair, in my opinion.

[Walleye]

1. The former KGB agent and were criminal dictator of Russia is his good buddy. But we are mortal enemies?

That would be laughable, except apparently all of Maga believes that

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. A collapsing economy may circumvent all those divisions

Trump may unintentionally become the “Great Unifier” when the economy falls into recession, inflation soars into double digits, and millions lose their healthcare or see premiums double.

The widespread suffering this will cause could erase the divisions around race, immigration and political ideology to unify the people (minus the 15-20% die hard crazies) to vote against Trumpism..

[kentuck]

4. Unfortunately...

Hardship and suffering will be the only thing that will unite this country. The division is great.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. If it takes suffering to bring unity, so be it.

I don’t wish for suffering, but if it brings unity against fascism, I won’t complain either.

[usonian]

3. The Beautiful Lie of Division: How We're Being Kept Apart

The Engineering Problem with Democracy
https://defragzone.substack.com/p/the-engineering-problem-with-democracy

Great article. I saved it.

Please note that Crusaders Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have been getting fantastic applause in deep red states with their unifying message: The oligarchs are dividing us to keep us from attacking the real problem, insane concentration of wealth. (pix below)

Believe me, they’re not afraid of you being wrong. They’re afraid of you being united. A society that disagrees about everything poses no threat. A society that agrees on even one or two fundamental things? That’s a revolution waiting to happen. That’s a system failure from their perspective. That’s game over.

So they keep us arguing about breakfast. About sports teams. About which billionaire is slightly less terrible than the other billionaire. About pronouns and statues and who gets to use which bathroom. And while we’re busy with all that, the game continues above our heads, unchanged and unchallenged.

You don’t have to agree with your neighbor about everything. You don’t have to share their religion, their diet, their politics, or their taste in music. But you might want to ask yourself: what do we agree on? Because that’s where the power is. That’s what they’re afraid of. That’s the exploit in the system they never patched.

And maybe, it’s time we started playing to win.