If the best way to win a war is to divide and conquer?

[Real Patriot]

Who has divided Americans? and is near conquering us?

[Happy Penguin]

The american people

Who else can you blame?

[Socrates]

Your attempt at a logical argument is lacking.

[nostradamus02012]

not sure we're at war with anyone at the moment, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.

we might be entering a trade war, but since we allow foreign corporations to have lobbyists in our nation's capitol, wouldn't it stand to reason that our own government is at war with itself?

if so, how does this have anything to do with political or regional divides.

it's our govt who have chosen to divide us, not some outside force...

[Ernesto G]

Anericans have been long divided by a power structure which is heavily linked to corporate interests, many of them with major holdings in defense industries and media outlets. NBC and all affiliates are owned by GE--who is also one of the world's top ten defense contractors---FOX is owned by News Corp., run by Rupert Murdoch---no explanation necessary there.
I mentioned NBC and FOX as two examples, because both companies have similar holdings in similar industries and benefit from the same governmental domestic and foriegn policies. Yet, as citizenry, we may notice that they provide two very different "views". NBC is traditionally "Left" or "Liberal", or associated with "Democrats", while FOX is very "Right", "Conservative" and "Republican".
The "Left"/"Right" paradigm is what has been used to divide and conquer American people, in the battleground of concensus and public opinion. Every debate is boiled down to a Manichean, black-or-white, one-answer-or-the other dialectic. That it is simple-minded, illogical and empirically insupportable that every issue can be divided down to two closed sets of opinions should be obvious to any educated and critical thinker.
Yet especially with increasing daily immersion for most people in a 24/7 media landscape, from televisions at home to iPhones and other devices all throughout the day, citizens are increasingly bombarded wiith propaganda, tailored along racial, class and religious lines to divide them into one of two stultifying camps. Neither "side" actually presents any viable solution to any problem or issue, but only exacerbates feelings of difference between themselves and the "other" side. Class is used a lot with this, as for example being "liberal" is instantly associated on a propaganda level with being rich or well-off, and therefore out of touch with the real world. "Conservative" on the other hand can be and often is associated with the working class, who are taught to be resentful towards the effete "liberals", just as the "liberals" are taught to look down upon the "conservatives" as mostly poor trailer park dwellers and rednecks. Religion also---being "liberal" is often associated with being Atheist, or of a somewhat indeterminate religion. "Conservative" is associated with Christianity, especially a very fundamental version.
Obviously, these stereotypes are quite often rare within REAL people. But the point is that each BELIEVE that about the "other". Religion and class are very emotional, visceral issues---as is race---which is famously and historically split along "left" and "right" lines. When people get emotional about something, it's very easy to demonize an enemy for them to attack, as well as to prevent them from ever looking objectively at any issue.
Of course, the empirical evidence is that at the corporate and governmental level, the same exact foriegn, domestic, economic and social policies are enacted and enforced no matter which "party" is in "power". Take for an example that over the course of the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, George Bush received $200,000 in contributions from insurance giant AIG. In 2008, Barack Obama received $100,000, which means that after the 2012 election, he will undoubtedly be equal to Bush. AIG received the same treatment from both, and AIG is provably behind purposeful manipulation of economic markets in order to produce the "recession" that has affected every citizen, "left" or "right" negatively, while benefitting the same upper echelon of corporate and governmental power. People will deny this on both "sides", regardless of the fact that it is EMPIRICAL FACT---(you can look up AIG contributions, as well as read several books from noted economists detailing the provable malfeasance by AIG, Goldman Sachs and others in recent years)---beause they have been taught by a 24/7 media to inaccurately blame the "other side". "Liberals" blame the sterotyped stupidity of working class "conservatives" for taking loans that they couldn't pay, (which was NOT a cause of the crash--Lending institutions convinced people that they could pay and introduced confusing contracts that only a high-priced lawyer would be able to decipher which it has been proven they knew beforehand would result in defaults), and "conservatives" side-step the issue completely by mouthing what they've been taught by their masters in the media--that "socialism" and "welfare" and other issues are the true cause of the crisis, as well as the machinations of other countires, as "conservatives" are also taught to be more jingoist than their counterparts---(a tip---China may be full of our factories there----but companies like Wal-Mart are the ones who chose to put the factories there IN THE FIRST PLACE).

[Jim Unkown]

Liberals are practicing the Communist way