I think that people have been encouraged to divide one another into groups, and that divisions have been deliberately engineered.
Older people are Boomers, who have had lives handed on a plate, get enormous pensions, spend their lives on cruises, and didn't pay for anything.
Young people are Millenials, who are feckless and selfish. They were spoilt by their parents and expect to be treated as special without working hard.
Brexiteers are racist Gammons, who froth at the mouth when Johnny Foreigner is mentioned, and would flog or hang people for littering.
Europhiles are whinging Remoaners, who need to 'get over it', 'suck it up', and accept that they 'lost'.
Muslims are Extremists, who abuse women and have terrorist sympathies.
Experts are Elites, with arrogant ideas that they want to inflict on everyone else.
Workers are Ignoramuses.
The unemployed are Scroungers. And so on.
It's a good job you and I are normal (and I'm not too sure about you!)
It is so much easier to pick people off when they are 'othered' like this. If we all stuck together and supported one another, regardless of religion, colour, age, politics or anything else, we would be a force to be reckoned with, but as long as we are busy being annoyed by some, looking down on others and sticking firmly to our guns, the government can get away with what it likes.