United we stand, Divided we fall" is a phrase that has been used in from nations and states to songs.
The basic concept is that unless the people are united, it is easy to destroy them. They have created this so we will divide. Con we into thinking its race religion that have caused this; it’s not that what has divided us for years.
It’s the chaos they have created for us, and now we know who are real enemy is. It goes back to the divide and rule concept. They have had many years of practice doing their work in stealth.
Divide and Rule
In politics and sociology, divide and rule also known as divide and conquer is a combination of political, military and economic strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
In reality, it often refers to a strategy where small power groups are prevented from linking up and becoming more powerful, since it is difficult to break up existing power structures.
The maxims divide are traditionally identified with the principle of government of the Old French Republic. This attribution is not entirely reliable, insofar as the Roman ruler, Ceaser, also used this tactic in earlier times.
It is, however, borne out by the example of Gabinius parting the Jewish nation into five conventions
Likewise, Strabo reports in Geography, 8.7.3 that the Achaean League was gradually dissolved under the Roman possession of the whole of Greece, owing to them not dealing with the several states in the same way, but wishing to preserve some and to destroy others.
In modern times, as a common principle in politics, the use of this technique is meant to empower the sovereign to control subjects, populations, or factions of different interests, who collectively might be able to oppose rule.
Let’s identify a similar application to military strategy, advising that a Captain should endeavor with every art to divide the forces of the enemy, either by making him suspicious of his men in whom he trusted, or by giving him cause that he has to separate his forces, and, because of this, become weaker.
The strategy of division and rule has been attributed to sovereigns ranging from Louis XI to the Habsburgs. Its historical reception has been mixed.
Thus Edward Coke denounces it in Chapter I of the Fourth Part of the Institutes, reporting that when it was demanded by the Lords and Commons what might be a principal motive for them to have good success in Parliament, it was answered: "
You would be insuperable if you were inseparable. This proverb, Divide and rule, has been rejected, since the root and the summit of authority are confirmed by the consent of the subjects.
On the other hand, “in a letter to James I of 15 February 1615, likewise James Madison recommends in a letter to Thomas Jefferson of 24 October 1787, summarizing the thesis of The Federalist: "Divide, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles."
A Philosophical Sketch by Immanuel Kant (1795), Appendix one, divide is the third of three political maxims. The other being the typical elements of this technique are said to involve creating or encouraging divisions among the subjects in order to forestall alliances that could challenge the sovereign.
Aiding and promoting those who are willing to cooperate with the sovereign.
Fostering distrust and enmity between local rulers.
Encouraging frivolous expenditures that leave little money for political and military ends.
The use of this strategy was imputed to administrators of vast empires, including the Roman and British, who were charged with playing one tribe against another to maintain control of their territories with a minimal number of imperial forces.
The concept of "Divide and Rule" gained prominence when India was a part of the British Empire, but was also used to account for the strategy used by the Romans to take Britain, and for the Anglo-Normans to take Ireland.
It is said that the British used the strategy to gain control of the large territory of India by keeping its people divided along lines of religion, language, or caste, taking control of petty princely states in India piecemeal.
Also mentioned as a strategy for market action in economics, it can be applied to get the most out of the players in a competitive market.
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