More "Progressive" Divisiveness

While I'm not an excessive news-hound, I recently saw a report on Newsy about an alternative football (soccer to those in the U.S.) “World Cup” that supposedly incorporates “countries” that are excluded by FIFA. This organization actually includes a team from a place called “Cascadia” - meaning Washington State, Oregon, and British Coumbia, Canada.

Yes, “Cascadia.”

Someone tell me, just how the fuck is "Cascadia" a country?

This organization, called ConIFA or the Confederation of Independent Footbal Associations represents itself as “progressive.” Progressive how? To me, something that is "progressive" is something that unites.  What they really are being is divisive, and one of a multitude of so-called progressive movements on the left that further fragments humanity.

There is an old saying: “Divide and conquer.”

Every time you hyphenate your ethnicity, your ancestry, your religious beliefs; every time you fragment your cultural identity, your region, your sexual-orientation, your loyalties; once you make yourself separate from the whole, and then make “demands” to be recognized as separate by “requiring” certain words to describe you, you are making it easier for the 1% to control and conquer you. And that 1% is not, I repeat, is not a conservative majority. 

 Many of the uber-wealthy present themselves as liberal – up until you start tapping their pocketbook and calling them to share more of the wealth.  At that point, they become more reactionary than Trump on a bad hair day.  Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates of Microsoft, Elon Musk of Tesla and Paypal, Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon... All control-freaks, all wishing to control you, what you think, what you buy, where you go, how you live.  (Oh, and a few years prior to his running for the Republican nomination, Trump would have been on that list as well because he was a registered Democrat and identified as liberal, verbally and monetarily supporting Hillary Clinton's Senate bid.)

Those listed above encourage this divisiveness by “supporting” these causes, encouraging them to "branch out" and fragment. Why? Because the more we become divided, the more we bicker, the more that minorities make demands, then the more that we find ways of being “different” from one another and that distracts us from what should be our overall goal: uniting as a people to make sure all in this world are treated fairly, making sure that all are fed, educated and have access to good healthcare.

We should be homogenizing, not separating.

Stop dividing.  Stop hyphenating.  Stop fragmenting.  Stop being stupid.