Along the lines of the finger pointing at Trump for riling folks up with anti-immigration/immigrant talk, I want to share a comment made on another board about a completely different subject but pretty much sums up how we are being manipulated by politicians who in turn manipulate the media, social media, and who knows what else. 

 

Both major political parties are increasingly using government to force ideological beliefs/practices upon citizens (even though those citizens may not want this.) Both are supporting an active war against privacy. And both use fear as a means of motivation and justification, often to provide simplified & vague solutions to very complex problems. While this is most prevalent among the extreme ends of each side, the effects can impact everyone.


 

I couldn't agree with this more and I wish more people would wake up and see it as well. The idea that all Republicans always follow conservative ideology (i.e. Christian values) simply is not true just as all Democrats do not always follow liberal ideology (anything not Christian). People with political gain on both sides have turned Christianity into a culture just as they have with everything not Christian. I focus on Christianity because it is pretty much what most folks think of when they hear 'republican' but it could be other religions as well.


 

People are foaming at the mouth to argue for and against the most personal of things and that is our individual beliefs. And guess who is stirring that pot? Politicians or political wannabes or has-beens. They do it with racial issues as well. Anything they can do to turn us against each other so we're distracted and not paying attention to what they're doing, or just not paying attention at all. When we get angry enough at each other we're not concerned about what's happening with the people who actually make the decisions this country has to live with. It happens so often that we feel like there is nothing we can do so we become apathetic and stop caring. And that's exactly where they want us. 


 

United We Stand. Divided We Fall. It is happening. 

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