[quote=@Dark Wind]
<Snipped quote by Cynder>

Partially. Goes much further than that.

Weaponizing the people against each other is a hell of a trick, yes it is.  
[/quote]

This right here. It's easy to take someone's mind off the fact that the world is caving in around them if you can point to another race/party/culture/literally anything else and say "They're evil!" then go to that group and tell them that the one you were just talking to is also evil.