[fwungy]

The Romans managed their empire with divide and conquer tactics.

Guns, abortion, trans issues are just red meat the corporations throw to the masses to keep their eye off what's really going on.

What's really going on? The pensions and retirements of the middle class are being drained away with inflationary monetary policy to pay for wars around the world and keep the corporate class on top.

We are free to fight to the death about sex and guns, but there's no effective discussion of the murderous, planet killing US war machine and the parasites who profit from it in the public discourse. What a coincidence. Divide and conquer.

[dumbotron]

You're confusing misdirection for divide and conquer. Divide and conquer would mean the US splits up so China can be the superpower.

[red-iron-pine]

Yeah the parent isn't fundamentally wrong, just misusing a term.

"Wedge Issues" would the political science nerd terminology, e.g. abortion, guns, or trans rights, which serve as a lever to push political action.

[fwungy]

It means splitting the country politically so that it is impossible to generate opposition to the leadership.

It's pretty clear that that is the modus operandi.

[kelseyfrog]

Absolutely anything to distract folks from class identity. I'm 50-50 on whether or not the intergenerational conflict articles[1] are part of a psyops program.

1. The sort of "Boomer hate Millennial" or vice versa or "Zoomers have no idea what a record player is"-type clickbait.