The Gain Control Series - Divided We Stand, Thanks to the Democrats

by Dr. Ellen Brandt


The Gain Control series offers our two cents worth of advice to Candidate Trump, telling him how we - GOP Base Loyalists - might like him to respond, in debates and otherwise, to specific kinds of attacks by Hillary Clinton.


A Clinton attack that needs to be shredded to bits: Which Party is Divisive? And which Party truly seeks to Unite?


We'd like Candidate Trump to object strongly and turn the tables on Candidate Clinton every time she says that he and the GOP are "divisive," a new buzzword for the Democrats and their lackeys in the Media.


The vast majority of Republicans believe that the Democrats have turned the very concept of "divisiveness" into something of a fine art, gleefully setting groups of Americans against one another in one great big National Fight Club, while mouthing the "politically correct" pabulum that No, it's those Evil Republicans causing the basic dissension.


Here's how we'd like Trump to counterattack:


Trump Channeling Our Advice (Who's the Divisionary?): One thing all Republicans and many others are angry about these days is Democrats' characterization of the GOP - and of me - as acting in a "divisive" manner, when the hard truth is that it is Clinton and the Democrats who have literally relished pitting one group of Americans against another, in what sometimes seem like political dogfights, designed to divide us, rather than unite us, and to stress our differences, rather than what we all have in common as patriotic Americans.


At the heart of this, we believe, is the gross misuse of the term "Rights," which Clinton and friends have somehow semantically morphed into an excuse for various interest groups to fight for domination over other interest groups, rather than fighting together as Americans for a better country and a better world.


We believe there are only two basic kinds of "Rights" that Americans should be concerned about: Human rights, which all human beings on this planet share. And American rights, which all American citizens share.


We believe there are no separate "men's rights" versus "women's rights." No "white rights" versus "black rights" versus "Native American rights." No different set of "rights," depending on whether one's ancestry is Polish or Ugandan or Jamaican or Colombian or Korean or whether one's religion is Christian or Muslim or Hindu or Jewish or Agnostic.


Clinton and the Democrats delight in goading various constituencies into feeling they have chips on their shoulders, which can only be removed by viciously attacking and somehow getting the better of other constituent groups.


The GOP knows better.


Republicans know that, as GOP icon Abraham Lincoln so wisely told us, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."


Lincoln made that speech at the Statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, when he was running for the Senate in 1858. But his words resonate strongly today, especially for us Republicans, who understand that the fastest way to destroy this country is by pitting some Americans against other Americans against still other Americans, rather than seeking the ways we can work together to make all Americans safe and secure and free from want.


That is our vision of Making America Great Again. And we can.


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