Thank you for your reply, Bear. I appreciate the view you present. We are not too far off in our positions, and I don't think my reply is too far off kilter either.

If we have We The People representatives of whatever color in house and senate, then we will end up with We The People political outcomes.

But our politicians are not We The People any longer. We can point at various causes and symptoms, but I like the world-view approach in which China is now rivaling the USA and therefore the steady apple cart is upset. It is just one of the many options for us to point to what is going on at a deeper level (symptom: jobs that supported the middle class have diminished, and the rift between haves and have-nots is larger today than 50 years ago). I’m using China just to provide a context.

So, we can wish our politicians to be We The People, but in majority they are not because we are not We The People any more. To the right, we see a shift to incorporating Yellow (you call it Black and that is fine) and then getting an Orange outcome that expresses our frustration. To the left, we see a stronghold that keeps Yellow out and the Blue Party may embrace Yellow in words, but it is not turning Green.

How can we be We The People when the two parties are not We The People and haven't been We The People for a real long time?

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I am going to use an analogy to show what is happening. I believe it is revealing using an example that shows reality from an unexpected but well-known angle.

When the USA was the world leader of the free world, our political parties both embraced the car. We had the Eisenhower freeway and everyone got on the ball.

Exactly because both parties embraced the car, there was no attention for transit, bicyclists, pedestrians. There was no third party to say the opposite thing to what both parties were saying.

Suburbia blossomed while downtowns suffered and emptied out. Folks started living in areas without sidewalks, transit agencies went belly-up, their skeleton services subsidized to the max, bicyclists aged 4 to 15 and when older moving on to driving cars.

In front of us success, behind us a deserted landscape.

While I exaggerate, I hope you see it. The We The People society that you believe was true was actually happening in your mind and outside world only in as far as both parties agreed on it. That what the third parties disagreed on did never make it to our minds and the outside world. Beyond our success story, we lived in a muted and censored world.

When successful, one can continue the good run for a real long time. But when success turns into a sustaining of our reality (we are still the leader in the world, but not like 50 years ago with an outside enemy - China today is very much on the inside of our economy), then we don’t have that strong push of success anymore. The collective push forward is not as collective anymore.

That's when Yellow finally surfaces. That is when the laggards of the successful outcomes finally catch up and tell their own stories; the middle hollowed out, and the bottom then channelling its frustrations upward more easily.

They entered the Republican Party successfully, and they are hammering at the Blue Party. All because we were never that promised We The People nation to begin with, but collectively successful enough to maintain it. Where in the Great Depression the entire world ended up going down that road with us, China may not be following us any longer, but we are starting to follow it (if we don't adjust ourselves).

There is a larger story and it is not being told because we have a political system that does not tell the larger story. The two parties were the same for the longest time, and now they are no longer the same but stand in diametrical positions.

'Have You Been Brainwashed?'

https://fred-rick.medium.com/have-you-been-brainwashed-3fc23a9e1190