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kentuck

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Wed Oct 15, 2025, 11:43 AM Oct 2025

The oldest strategy in the world [View all]

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.

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