US President Donald Trump is using the “emigration controversy” to further divide Americans along political psychological lines using his proposed wall on the US/Mexican border as a symbolic, rather than tangible concept, according to Walt Peretto, a writer and researcher based in Washington, DC.
“Divide and conquer is a concept and a technique that has been used by tyrants to control masses of common people since at least the era of the Roman Empire. The presidency of Donald Trump is completing one full year, and his administration has been defined by division,” Peretto told Press TV on Friday.
“The political division in the United States right now has never been stronger. People who are psychologically locked into the left/right paradigm have never been more polarized. The common enemy of the people is not the Republican ideology or the Democratic ideology—it is the people behind the scenes who promote figure-heads to lead both…