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I appreciate the chance to think deeper about this. You are spot on! If we take account of all the frightening divisions they’ve spun over the last several years, it’s deviously brilliant and totally exhausting.

If someone has managed to avoid all the skirmishes they must live under a rock… Me Too pitted men against women. BLM sowed deep division and fear of being labeled racist. Then it was Covid and the jabs; vaxxed vs unvaxxed. With Ukraine you’re either on board or a Russian sympathizer. If you don’t want biological men in the women’s locker room then you are a transphobe. Traditional values means you are a fascist. If you don’t support all immigrants you’re xenophobic and racist. And now with Israel and Palestine you’re either a jew hater or anti Arab.

There is no win; they have us exactly where they want us. My question is how can we NOT fall for it when we are constantly pushed up against a wall? I miss the days when people were just people and politics didn’t rule all.

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