{ "item_title" : "Divide and Conquer", "item_author" : [" Michael Scalia "], "item_description" : "The oldest military strategy in human history is divide and conquer. Split the enemy into factions. Make each faction believe the other is the real threat. Move freely while they fight each other. Every empire in history has used it. And the political, media, and financial establishment of twenty-first century America has been using it on the American people for decades.This book names the machine.Divide and Conquer is the most accessible and most urgent book you will read about what is actually happening in American politics - not the fight between left and right, but the system that manufactured the fight and profits from it continuing. It is written for every American regardless of political affiliation, race, religion, or background. It does not take a side. It takes the American people's side against the institutions that have been running them against each other.The evidence is not hidden. It is in the financial disclosures of media corporations that discovered outrage generates more advertising revenue than information. It is in the campaign finance records showing political fundraising grew from three billion dollars in 2000 to over fourteen billion in 2020 - fueled by fear-based messaging that both parties deploy with identical precision. It is in the leaked internal documents of Facebook showing the company knew its algorithm amplified anger and chose to keep it running because anger drove engagement and engagement drove revenue. It is in the exposed record of how both political parties vote together on the issues where corporate money is concentrated while performing opposition on the issues that keep voters divided and distracted.Every chapter examines one piece of the division machine: The media outrage model that turned news into an anger business.The political fundraising apparatus that monetizes fear.The label machine that kills conversations before they reach the questions the system cannot answer.The manufactured racial divide that has kept Black and white Americans from organizing around their shared economic interests since 1676.The two-party illusion - bipartisan agreement on Wall Street, military spending, surveillance, and pharmaceutical protection hidden behind theatrical disagreement on cultural issues.The social media algorithms designed to amplify anger because anger drives engagement and engagement drives profit.The law enforcement training gap between the constitutional oath every officer takes and the twenty-one hours of constitutional training they receive.The sovereign citizen label deployed to silence anyone who asks constitutional questions the legal system finds inconvenient.The hidden consensus - the supermajorities of Americans who agree across party lines on corruption, healthcare costs, drug pricing, and economic fairness while being told they agree on nothing.Every chapter names specific institutions. Every chapter cites specific financial records. Every chapter presents evidence from both sides so no reader can dismiss it as partisan. Fox News and MSNBC are both examined. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both in the record. George Soros and the Koch Brothers are both named. The evidence goes in both directions because the machine has no side. It uses the left against the right and the right against the left with equal efficiency because its goal was never the victory of either side. Its goal was the fight continuing.This is Book One of the American Awakening Series. The division machine is examined completely. What the reader does with that understanding is their own decision. But the awakening, once it happens, cannot be undone.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/534/9798165347825_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.99", "online_price" : "24.99", "our_price" : "24.99", "club_price" : "24.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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