We, the American people, are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those people behind the curtain jerking everybody’s chains and trying to divide us up by age, by race, by income.

— Dr. Ben Carson

Of course he’s right. “Divide and conquer”. It’s the oldest, most toxic form of manipulation there is. It happens every day in families, in businesses and in government. It’s as old as human nature. And millions continue to fall for it — even in what was once the Nation of the Enlightenment, the land of liberty. So, so sad. Americans had so much to lose. And now millions of us are squandering it, all because … they hate Trump. Or whatever Trump represents to them.

–Michael J. Hurd