The pendulum swings.

There have been many eras of extreme haves and extreme have nots.
Today we are just about at the apex of the extreme right swing between the have everything and the have nothings.

Keeping the 'have nothings' squabbling over this religion or that religion, this value or that value, this conservative or that liberal... will keep the have everythings intact and above the fray able to sell weapons to this side or that side to their profitable hearts content.

I honestly do not see any paradox.

I see intention.

I see the economics of control.

I see divide and conquer in every issue, all seasoned with different religious spices, different nationalist illusions and people either chasing the favor of the current monied Ceasars or those who are factionalized but still trying to knife Ceasar in the gut.

Even if they get one Ceasar, there is another who usurps fallen's fortune and repeats the process.

All attitudes about all social issue of import today like death penalty, gay rights, abortion are changable as Newt Gingrich's viewpoint. As they are taught, they can be untaught. They are only tools of division, not commandments in stone.