"Donald Trump - Divide and Conquer."
"From this side of the river" – “Desde este lado del rio”.
My greatest fear about Donald Trump's strategy was ratified by his Presidential Election victory. "Divide and Conquer." A term used by the Assyrian Tukulti Ninurta and perfected in Babylon by the Roman Julius Caesar was the scheme he implemented..
The same strategy used by large corporations when they want to ingest a smaller one profitable one through what’s known as a "Hostile Takeover".
His first step was to insult an ethnic segment of the country, in this case the Hispanic and the black, to motivate them to mobilize against him. The result was obvious. The Hispanic and the Negro joined forces to prevent him from unraveling a racist and disgusting idea. It’s something similar to Hitler's speech in Nuremberg, when he used the influence and economic power of the Jew of that time as the main reason for Germany's depression after the First World War.
Trump did the same thing and used the media, while being riddled by the obvious and united attack against him, and his own insinuation of the Medias’ corruption, to keep his rhetoric hidden in the midst of his stupidities. The more racist, illogical and violent his comment was, the more free air presence he received in all the mass media which he used as a moral fertilizer for the harvest of the apostles who feed on his ideas.
What was he looking for? What he got. And, based on a feeling hidden among the white majority, hidden and dissatisfied with the obstructionism and the decadence of the political parties and their influencing powers, he, subliminally and profanely vociferously, mobilized his sector and, in and through the process, diminish one party, basically eradicated another political party, while at the same time turning it into another, whose leader, now , is he.
To make matters worse, his party now controls the Congress and the Senate. The question is: will the Senate and Congress give him the autonomous power to dictate his cravings? And if it does, will it be allow by the people of different ethnic groups of emigrants united and also accustomed to the ritual fallacy of democracy?
Recently, I heard, in the voice of the current president, Barack Obama, paraphrasing it, "When the people are cornered, the time comes when the people rebel against that encroachment." Conditions are optimal for something similar if the apostles of Trump turn their victory into a feeling of arrogance against the rest of the diverse ethnic races. In that case, the others will undoubtedly rebel against it, "with all that is available," within their reach. If the concept of Democracy of Cleisthenes survives, even though his was majority rules as opposed to “Electoral vote rules,” as is our case was the intended object, the hope is that it will be emancipated, as it happened with Julius Caesar, by the Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus of the Senate and Congress, and not by a civil armed conflict.
From a negative you get a positive, as everyone knows. It may be that this is one is applicable to that proverb that says: "There is no evil that for good does not come". And to be honest, in his rhetoric there are certain undeniable truths, though negative, of how the politician make promise to minorities during their campaign and never complies with them after achieving his goal. The important thing now for the individual not to lower him or herself to the same racist tendencies of this new president. What is essential lies in the search for good in the midst of evil and to drift in the midst of the storm until our feet is set firmly on solid ground. That, unfortunately, can only be achieved by the human minds that reside ... on this side of the river.
--Manuel A. Simó
Note: Thanks to my Profe, Justo Alarcon, for correcting my deficiencies.