To separate is to have power over. It's unfortunately easy to make us hate each other. Governments know this well. As history is being eliminated, including monuments, pictures, evidence of slavery, we become disoriented. While groups are being turned against other groups, they become distracted, angry while the government seizes power everywhere.
Why are we questioning the increase in political violence when the reasons are obvious? The hatred and turning against one another is spiraling and increasing. And when people don't know what's going to happen next, anxiety increases - and with it, a collective sense of disorientation.
It's so like the Yeats lyrics I posted on the left side of this blog's web version. I woke with those lyrics the morning after the election and knew instinctively who had won and what the election would bring.
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