It’s programming that goes back to the Renaissance. When the first Africans were gifted to the US by the Dutch the statesman turned countrymen manipulated language so people couldn’t understand one another then used institutions to spread propaganda.

The institutions have psychological reinforcements that keep people mentally confined so they stick to what’s comfortable. They also have financial investments in the division as well as the criminality of stepping outside the confinement. The elites then mislabel the ones who broke there’s so others don’t follow.

It’s been really hard to have the conversation but once you move past the emotional it’s a quick fix… which presents a dilemma for the ones in power: when the men aren’t focused on mistrusting each other, what stops them from focusing it on us?