Guest Post by Mesomorph
Perception is solitary. There will be as many different perceptions to a situation as there are perceivers. That however doesn’t stop our handlers from loosely corralling us into whatever two groups they think they can convince us have a dividing line between them. Divide and conquer. One doesn’t need to study Clausewitz to understand the benefits. I once heard that there are two types of people in this world- those that lump people into two awkward groups and those who don’t.
Every election cycle brings us two new groups that are pitted against each other. A scribbly divide is created and voila, democracy! I see that there is pressure right now to lump the plebs into one of two groups in the upcoming presidential election. Without any conscious decision on our parts we are being directed either to the group who perceives Donald Trump as the disease or the group who believes he is the cure. The former watches his speeches and all they can see is a festering carbuncle right in the middle of America’s forehead. The latter group looks at Donald Trump as penicillin, chemo and insulin all rolled up into one flamboyant orange pill that will magically cure our syphilis and cancer ridden diabetic body.