The philosophy of division is a philosophy of power politics, a philosophy that paints America as a mythical construct, instituted by those at the top of the hierarchy in order to reinforce their own control. It is a philosophy that derides any notion of American unity as a lie, and bathes that which links us—Abraham Lincoln’s “bonds of affection” and “mystic chords of memory”—in acid, disintegrating our ties and casting us all adrift.
