Do you have trust issues? Do you look both ways when crossing a roundabout? There is a conscious effort by those currently in power to create mistrust and divisions within the U.S. population – us versus them. They’re trying to create a kind of national Stockholm Syndrome.

By some measures, it’s been effective, but there are reasons to believe that it’s not actually as pervasive as those sowing the divisions want us to believe. Here are five reasons for the split and, more importantly, five ways to fix it.