Demons Find Our Weakness
…and then exploit it.

Just look at the tools available to us!
If these words exist, then the experience exists:

Machination – a plot or scheme to contrive.
Divide – to force apart.
Divide and rule (or conquer) the policy of maintaining control
over one’s subordinates or opponents,
by encouraging dissent between them,
thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition.
Exasperate – irritate intensely; infuriate.
Exacerbate – provoke to anger.

Now look at the world.
Now look at your own mind.