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Originally Posted by Dogbert
It's remarkable just how effectively the rich and powerful are able to pit those who have little and those who have nothing against one another. The tensions between races and religions are as high as I've ever seen them, it only seems to be getting worse, and those who should be calming everyone down seem to be purposefully stoking the fires.
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It doesn't take the rich and powerful to pit races and religions against one another. Look around the world. Look at our own history. People are naturally suspicious of the Other, and that suspicion turns to hostility when times get tough. The relative tolerance of different peoples for one another in the West in the last 40 years or so is the anomaly.
Demagoguery is ugly and dangerous. But it's not all that hard to pull off, and it's certainly nothing new.