"Divide and conquer" is certainly being used, but my point is that the Left actually encourages the very attitudes it claims to oppose, provided the locus of the activities is changed. "Unthinking American superpatriotism" is condenmned, while "unthinking African superpatriotism" is encouraged--even ancient African monarchies are celebrated. Similarly, the religions of the "oppressed" are exempt from Leftist critique: whether Irish Catholicism in Northern Ireland, Black American Baptists, or the shamanism of "indigenous peoples."
The left's hypocrisy is rarely pointed out by the very people that should be monitoring their foolishness -- the dinosaur media.