In politics, the mathematics of morality consists of two opposite processes, division and multiplication.
Division is most effective in establishing immorality in governance as it works to exclude people from power and wealth.
Conversely, multiplication promotes morality as it works to enable more citizens to assume leadership positions in government and to enjoy the fruits of economic prosperity.
In every political arena, there is a minority willing and eager to use division to amass power and personal wealth at the expense of the majority.
Using division, an unscrupulous minority of 25% to 30% can impose its will on the entire country. If it can divide the majority into multiple, bickering, opposition groups, each smaller than the minority, it can simply ignore any and all complaints and protests about injustice, racism, fascism, nepotism, cronyism, and a any other immoral and unethical practices it may establish.
In the short video (below), Rev. William Barber of North Carolina talks about what can be done to oppose and to instead multiply our efforts to counter the regressive and repressive minority currently running roughshod over the Constitution and rolling back hard-fought societal victories designed to protect the powerless from the excesses of the powerful.
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