What role can agape love play in avoiding divide-and-conquer ?
Very humbly suggest this.
We don’t over-emphasize conservative-vs-progressive themes. There are legitimate concerns within both perspectives. Excessive governmental and corporate power are both problems. They reinforce each other in the SEC, USDA, FDA, DOD, and so on.
Also, consider how conservative complaints against excessive executive and other powers of the federal government are similar to complaints progressives had against Bush.
But among some mainstream progressives, those concerns aren’t expressed during Obama’s tenure. As another example, consider how mainstream progressives sort of dropped their concerns about US militarism when Obama got into office.
Though there still are some significant differences between Dems and Repubs on issues such as gay rights or women’s rights, a credible case can be made that they are actually two wings of the same big-money-dominated party.
Powerful corporations own mainstream media, which sells us, as consumer items in a manner of speaking, opinions based on short-cuts, omissions, and over-simplification.
They don’t hold a gun to, or plant a chip in our heads, but their incessant depiction of conservative-vs-progressive drama promotes divisiveness among the general public—to, if not consciously for, the unenlightened benefit of the elite.
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