Divide and conquer. Anyone smelling bs with the current narrative being pushed???

Great short read.

Beware The "The Cultural Civil War" Narrative: You're Being Played

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Source ZeroHedge

There is always common ground for those who dare to seek it.

Remember the "Russians hacked our election!" hysteria - or have you already forgotten? That entire narrative collapsed under a deluge of factual evidence that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) data release was an insider job, and a compelling lack of evidence of any other Russian hacking.

That failed narrative has now been replaced with a new mass hysteria: "a new cultural Civil War is inevitable." In this narrative, America has succumbed to us-versus-them divisions divided by all-or-nothing ideological bright lines.

Snap out of it, America: you're being played, just as you were played by the absurd "Russia hacked the election" mania.

The core strategy here is the destruction of any common ground: once the delusion that there is no common ground left has been cemented by relentless mainstream and social media hysteria/ propaganda, the populace fragments into echo-chamber fiefdoms of ideological conformity that are easily manipulated by the political-financial power structure. ...."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/beware-cultural-civil-war-narrative-youre-being-played