DIVIDE ET IMPERA

 DIVIDE ET IMPERA

The title is commonly known as divide and conquer. The more literal translation from the Latin is divide and rule. In warfare, it is a strategy to better your odds of conquest by dealing with a smaller resistance force. In politics, it is a strategy of gaining and maintaining power through divisive tactics. This approach can either exploit natural differences or create new ones to widen the divide. Divide et impera is the last of three political adages outlined in Perpetual Peace written by Immanuel Kant in 1795. The other maxims are Fac et excusa (Act now, apologize later) and Si fecisti, nega (If you commit a crime, deny it).

There is a one-hour short film produced in 1943 covering how Nazi Germany used the technique to its advantage. [the YourTube link is provided] Hitler told through his propaganda machine, his neighboring countries to the west that he had no intention of invading each of them to make them feel secure as individuals to keep them from uniting with Great Britain. He then invaded each of them. It describes his utilization of Fifth Column techniques where a smaller group infiltrates and weakens the larger group from within. It also describes his leveraging political corruption and greedy self-interest to weaken resistance to his advances.

YouTube Film

While I doubt that our current American Führer has read Kant, the authors of Project 2025 may have highlighted a few Perpetual Peace strategies. Some may have read the original Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf. They would not have read Kant for his stance against autocracy, but for his methodology to achieve democratic peace so they could exploit those for their own objectives.

In some adaptations of Kant’s theories, it was suggested that capitalism promoted peace because war was costly and unproductive. Conquest and imperialism were the antithesis of modern capitalism. Some envisioned a perpetual peace because public opinion would favor peaceful democracy over absolute monarchy. Such thoughts may have been good in theory, but current observations would prove them wrong.

Whatever their motivations, known only to them, the objective seems clear; the creation of a new all-powerful monarchy that could rightly be called the United States, Inc. There would be a CEO and a board of directors that would answer only to the shareholders and not the customers. This would be a financial entity created for profit where customers are merely consumers who provide the labor and income for the landed gentry (aka shareholders).

To accomplish this objective within the existing restrictions of a democracy, the divide-and-conquer method is expedient. Toward that end, religious enmity would be exploited pitting evangelicals against regular Christians, all religions against non-believers, and existing rifts between Muslims, Jews, Christians, atheists, etc. Racism, xenophobia, and the like would also be There would be name-calling with Dems, libs, et.al. as the enemy and the oligarchs labeled as the “good guys“ who will save the faithful from the demon left.

Beyond divide and conquer there are other strategies afoot that eliminate enforcement of existing laws. Get rid of the federal police force, aka The FBI. Stack the judiciary to include “friends with benefits.“ Control the message by marginalizing the traditional media and replacing it with corporate-owned social media. Turn the heat up slowly on the cooking pot and the frog (the people) won’t realize it is the main course.