Dividing & Conquering the American electorate
Divide & Conquer
"5: But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6: The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7: Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:5-7
The Tower of Babel, right at the beginning of the Bible, serves as one of history’s first and most powerful examples of divide-and-conquer; a powerful unity, fractured by division, becomes weak. In warfare, the same tactic holds, splitting a strong force into factions, whether by physical or ideological means, weakens it until it's confused, isolated, at odds, and easily defeated.
We (the People) are being Divided this way
We are naturally prone to self-segregate along racial and cultural lines, patterns deeply rooted in our nation’s history. Wealthy and corporate interests exploit and widen these divisions, keeping us consumed in a culture war against each other and oblivious to the class war they wage against us.
The irony is that:
- Most of us share the same basic needs.
- Those needs have easily understood and implementable solutions AND
- could be easily resolved if We ("the People") democrats, republicans and otherwise united in solidarity around them.
The Purpose for the Culture War: Keep the American Electorate Divided & Conquered
The purpose of the culture war in America is to keep us on our respective sides of the cultural divide so that we will not unite and engage in the class war being waged against us.
An ecosystem of media outlets, think tanks, and culture warriors has emerged to fuel the culture war, pushing narratives that stoke political tribalism while crafting and promoting legislation that serves wealthy individuals and corporations. Entities like Fox News, The Heritage Foundation, ALEC, PragerU, Turning Point USA, Breitbart News, and others drive divisive issues and shape policies that ultimately prioritize the goals of the wealthy and corporate interests over those of everyday Americans.
The bottom line
The wealthy and corporate elite are single-issue voters, supporting whichever party lowers their taxes and promotes their economic interests, regardless of cultural debates. They are unified in this understanding in a way We ("The People") are not.
We would suggest to you that if the Democrats and not the Republicans were the party of tax cuts, the wealthy and corporate elite would back them on every cultural issue from same-sex marriage to critical race theory, as long as it didn’t raise their tax bill one thin dime. These issues simply don’t matter to them, certainly not as much as lowering their taxes.
We need to adopt this same approach, making economics the deciding factor in our political decision-making. Like the elite, we should push cultural issues aside and refuse to be manipulated into voting against our own economic self-interests: We ("the People") need to vote our class just as the wealthy vote their tax bracket. We ("the People") definitely need to stop voting THEIR tax bracket.
if every American voted his or her own economic self-interest, our ongoing class-war would quickly become a route in the opposite direction in a few short years. Let's We ("the People") stop being the wealthy classes' tower of Babel and unite around the economic issues that will lead us to victory.