{"id":345632,"date":"2018-01-27T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-using-emigration-to-divide-americans\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:16:32","slug":"presstv-trump-using-emigration-to-divide-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-using-emigration-to-divide-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump using emigration to divide Americans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is using the \u201cemigration controversy\u201d 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDivide 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,\u201d Peretto told Press TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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&#8212;it is the people behind the scenes who promote figure-heads to lead both&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/27\/550375\/Trump-using-emigration-controversy-to-divide-Americans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is using the \u201cemigration controversy\u201d 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. \u201cDivide and conquer is a concept and a technique that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}