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(32,139 posts)It is the One Percent's primary tool for ensuring that their predatory policies continue.
As long as The Other Side is cast as evil incarnate, there is no possibility of ever coming together as a nation to focus, not on beating the other side, but on what is best for the nation.
The propaganda deliberately stokes this sort of partisan psychosis. That's why we get the spectacle of Democrats who abhor drone murders and surveillance under Bush but not Obama, and Republicans who attack Obama for the very same policies they cheered under Bush.
When either side continues predatory policies, the One Percent fuels the brainwashed partisans to circle the wagons and defend those policies. And if either side does the right thing, they stoke the other team's partsan outrage to drag the nation back to profitable dysfunction.