Divided and Conquered

[MichSwampbuck]

As nihilistic as I am, and as much as I want to see a corrupt politician under every bed and behind every blade of grass, I find that I reject that kind of extremism. The organic development of a polarized culture due to the online social media and AI effect seems more palatable to me. Yet, I have to acknowledge that I feel there is some level of control going on, but who or what is elusive to me.

[Shoshanna]

Divide and conquer, a technique used to weaken the enemy is often applied to left/right politics. I hear the claims that the deep-state players are using this to control the masses by keeping them at each other's throats and distracted from the people behind the curtain pulling the strings.

I believe whoever is using this technique has succeeded. There is no middle ground now, there is no opinion, no matter how logical, fact-based, or unbiased, that will not be placed on one side or the other. Families are being torn apart by this political polarity and it sure seems to be serving a purpose. My girlfriend experienced this personally at a recent funeral in her family.

I have an example of my own to illustrate the point. The incident with the black kid in Texas at the track meet who stabbed a white kid who told him to leave his seat. When that report hit the media, the facts were scant and people automatically made assumptions, you know the kind. A young black male stabs a white guy to death, so it is a problem black people have with violence. The other side of that is young southern white boys threatening an "uppity black" to leave his seat who then defends himself.

If you are a liberal who would wonder out loud if the black kid was a murdering criminal, your liberal friends would call you a red-neck Trump MAGA Nazi. Conversely, if you were a conservative white guy who wondered if this was some racist southern white boys threatening a black guy who had the right of self-defense, then you are automatically a closet liberal or some kind of political double agent. In some circles, you'd be called a fag or a Jew as well.

Now, I'm hearing that this black kid had it out for the white kid he stabbed to death, if so, then it was premeditated murder. Then, as predicted, this kid is the new liberal martyr who needs a go fund me for his defense and is racking up the defense funds as we speak. Meanwhile, the media is trying to imply the white kids were racist militant MAGA types because of a picture of them out hunting in camo clothes.

Unless I am making my observations public in the appropriate echo chamber, I will be doomed to be labeled one way or the other. You cannot be moderate anymore, you can't look at both sides and voice your independent thoughts and ideas without being placed in one camp or the other. We have already been divided and conquered when moderate objectivity is no longer allowed.

If I were to point out the extreme propaganda and rhetoric of both sides, I'd still get pigeon holed into one side or the other. I find that I must self-censor in public now, I discovered this at a local restaurant recently, not that I disagreed with the talk I heard. I have to keep it to myself for the most part, and that is the goal here, to stifle our free speech and keep us divided and unorganized.

TPTB create this division using MSM and social media which most people are glued to. They don't want us to figure out it isn't US vs. US, it's US vs. THEM. I think this is why you see the massive bot campaigns on the large social media sites like Twitter/facebook/reddit. These billion and trillionaires do not care what we do to each other as long as we are busy being in conflict not coming together. They are not bound by political parties or ideologies. They're bound by their elitism and wealth.

[TheBlueKnight]

TPTB create this division using MSM and social media which most people are glued to. They don't want us to figure out it isn't US vs. US, it's US vs. THEM. I think this is why you see the massive bot campaigns on the large social media sites like Twitter/facebook/reddit. These billion and trillionaires do not care what we do to each other as long as we are busy being in conflict not coming together. They are not bound by political parties or ideologies. They're bound by their elitism and wealth.

I like this comment. But I would disagree with the last sentence. These "ruling class elites" are actually bound by their obedience to satan. That's where they get their power. Guess what will happen when The Most High removes him from power, and Jesus Christ reigns over the Earth forevermore? The Truth will set you free! HalleluYeha!

[quintessentone]

https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of...ent-media/

The above link is a list of independent media sources.

An open and fair mind is a prerequisite.

Here is another source:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/

[MichSwampbuck]

https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of...ent-media/

The above link is a list of independent media sources.

An open and fair mind is a prerequisite.

Here is another source:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/

Great stuff. I'm bookmarking the links.

[quintessentone]

Great stuff. I'm bookmarking the links.

Yeah it is great because not all news can be written off as biased just because of political leanings, as there may be some nuggets of truth mixed in with the hype.

[MichSwampbuck]

Yeah it is great because not all news can be written off as biased just because of political leanings, as there may be some nuggets of truth mixed in with the hype.

I will go out to the creek gold panning for hours just for a couple of small flakes. If I'm really serious, I'll dig down and pan for weeks to hit the pay streak.

[quintessentone]

I will go out to the creek gold panning for hours just for a couple of small flakes. If I'm really serious, I'll dig down and pan for weeks to hit the pay streak.

Or Fool's Gold if one is not experienced in what the differences are.

[MichSwampbuck]

Or Fool's Gold if one is not experienced in what the differences are.

True, "All that glitters is not gold". Gold is very very heavy, and seeks the bottom of your pan and wants to say there. Getting to the bottom of things for a nugget or two by a process of elimination is a good analogy IMO.

[Parcival]

I'm a day late or so on this but my take on this whole thing is that over a period of years our school systems have been flooded with ideological teachers that tend to lean very far left.  They have influenced our children all the way up through college in such a way that it takes many of them years in the workforce to start seeing things through any other lens.  I started taking online classes towards a degree and its crazy how these teachings are all somehow incorporating DEI into just normal classes.  Everything is geared towards making you think your neighbor needs a hand out.

You couple this with the media being mostly controlled by 2 or 3 major corporations and all reporting the same slanted news day after day and you start to see why we have so many people who truly believe we are destroying the world, destroying the country, or that the president is evil.  I mean you can just look at the one hand gesture that Elon made at the inauguration or the most recent story of Trump wearing a blue suit to the popes funeral and you see how irresponsible our main stream media is.  They are truly the rudder that points the liberals in a direction. 

Now look at the bigger picture and congress is no longer for the people.  Congress is for their party and its both sides.  I believe the Right does it more out of self defense that if they dont stick together nothing gets done but the left does it as a weapon.  If the Right proposes something, even if it makes perfect sense and is reasonable the left will get in rank and file and ALL vote against it.  They do not want to see the right make progress as it might make them look good and help on the campaign trail.  Everything is about their party, not about the American people and to an extent I believe that is both sides of the isle now.  A large portion of our government all the way up and down the food chain is only in it for the money and to help their party. 

Locally when we vote for our Mayor they no longer list a party affiliation and its ridiculous because a lot of people dont know how to vote or dont pay attention and this last go round we had two democrats against one republican and one had been a news anchor and had name recognition.  Somehow we ended up with both democrats in a run off and we had no republican option on the primary ballot.  So in the most conservative state in the union in the second largest city we have a liberal democrat mayor.  The problem with this is he may be from here and he may share many of our values, he is still going to side with his party when they tell him to because thats how it works now.  He will not say no or they will no longer back him.  We cant sustain this.  Something has to give.  Congress needs to have a middle ground.