The United States has been fighting illegal immigration for a long time. The construction of a fence between California and Mexico began back in 1993. In 2006, George Bush added another 900 kilometers of reinforcements to it, and recently Donald Trump joined the fight. Watching his activity on Twitter and Instagram, it seems that for the past few months, America has been preoccupied with one thing: how to protect itself from the invasion of Mexicans. Are there no other problems? Why is this wall so important? Why now? Is it really so critical that the government had to be shut down for a whole month?
What task is Trump, together with those behind him, solving by focusing Americans’ attention on this issue and inevitably attracting huge negativity from those who do not support the idea of such harsh and radical isolation of the US territory from the external, albeit unreliable, world? Why risk his reputation, enter into conflict with half of American society? Judging by the statistics, illegal immigration is already decreasing, even without the construction of a wall:
Maybe Trump wants to go down in history as the builder of the great Mexican wall? After all, he is a builder by trade, with buildings bearing his name, for example, in New York and in Las Vegas. Will there now also be a Trump Wall? In other words, perhaps it’s his personal ambition? This version doesn’t seem plausible, as Trump has the support of the Republican Party and big American money behind him. They wouldn’t support him if it was just a project to immortalize his name. He is not Gaddafi or Lukashenko.
Or perhaps the answer lies in the question itself: why build a wall that causes such controversy, doesn’t actually solve any real problems, and isn’t even a big issue?
Maybe that’s exactly why it’s needed? Maybe it’s needed by Trump and those behind him not to separate America from Mexico, but to divide America into two warring camps? Those who support a xenophobic policy (Republicans) and those who are vehemently against it (Democrats). In other words, to polarize society.
It’s not so important what serves as a pretext for this: be it Mexican drug traffickers who need to be fought immediately, or global warming that requires all efforts to be thrown into saving it, or something else. It doesn’t matter. What’s important is finding a pretext that can unequivocally divide the people into left and right, those “for” and those “against,” no matter what the issue is. And having found a pretext, find a spokesperson who is loud enough, convinced and determined enough for half to follow him and half to be against him. That hero America has found.
Why is polarization needed? It’s easier to control the people that way. It’s easier to impose your political will on them if every citizen is firmly attached to a specific camp. The average voter should know exactly whom he is willing to vote for. He shouldn’t doubt. He should know who his friends are and who his enemies are. He should be loyal to his party, his leader, and fiercely hate the opposing party and its leader-scoundrel.
This wall is not being built between the US and Mexico.
This wall is being built between us, the ordinary voters.
Do we need it? Do we need polarization? Similar processes are taking place in Ukraine and Russia, only the pretext for them is not Mexican drug traffickers, but Bandera supporters from Uzhgorod, child killers from Donetsk, and Putin the cannibal. The essence is the same: divide the voters into two camps, and then act as needed, directing each camp in the right direction.
Divide and conquer — that’s what it was called in ancient times.
Translated by ChatGPT gpt-3.5-turbo/42 on 2024-04-20 at 14:50
