Wow, a deep conclusion, and in the end it is all us, folks. Benjamin thinks that we are them and they are us. A perfect example of the Monotheistic God controlling the modern mind, at least Benjamin’s. Everything got nicely melded into one. Right!?!
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So, let's discuss the reverse, and make this be about truth and power, and forget about making all one because that is boloney anyway.
The folks that should matter, we, ourselves, the voters, do not matter all that much. We have a voting system in which voters compete with the voters, or in plain English where we try to cut off as many others from power as possible until we have power in a percolated substance.
Then, we end up with two parties, Red and Blue, and they must compete with one another to grow or remain stronger than the other, after having killed off any chance for the Yellow, Green or Orange Party to rise to the top.
We have two sumo wrestlers, one Red, One Blue, and each must (ab)use the other to stay above the muck in which they are fighting.
The nation in the meantime is divided into the haves, the have-nots, and the diminishing middle class in between. Particularly the real bottom is interesting, because most folks at the real bottom have given up voting because it does not do them any good. They show how disinterest is the foundation of our political system, the muck.
Then, the ones between the real bottom and the upper middle-class ranges, they don't want to fall into the black hole at the real bottom of society, so they trample as many others as they can, just to stay afloat themselves.
The reality is therefore that an enormous middle layer exists in the United States that is forced to be selfish, that is forced to see their own little reality as the actual reality because they need to survive in this maelstrom of the political landscape.
Then, because you turned this into an international storyline, the financial success story of the United States attracts a lot of foreign investors, a lot, and they all want to share in the success of the elite here, the upper class and businesses alike. Monies from foreign elites pour in, and as a result we are exporting our political reality (not necessarily our political model). In the end, we whipped the entire modern world into either an eye of love for what the USA has to offer or an eye of hate of what the USA does to the world, turning everyone into haves or have-nots.
We do not have a bottom foundation; it is muck.
That is our reality. Meanwhile, foreign players are becoming more prominent, China and India rising in the last few decades, who will be the new economic leaders by 2050, or for sure beyond, and who are undermining the American hegemony in a manner already today that we are feeling it. Their maelstroms will become bigger than our maelstroms. We can feel the draft. The desperate here are feeling the larger desperation already. The people with the elite are not feeling it.
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I do like that you mentioned how the Blue Party ended up more Purple, and how this pushed the Red Party into becoming redder still.
In my words, I saw the Democratic Party conniving more like the Republican Party in their lust for power, and it worked. They were not taking the blows any longer, the gloves came off.
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The people are so fed up with this stupid two party system. The Trump supporters do not care about Trump's words at all. They like that his words are a fist. They want to punch someone, just like we have all these mass shootings everywhere because folks are at their boiling points quite often nowadays.
Folks are angry. They are not living the American Dream. No, not talking about the ones who are still raking it in, year after year. Meta, the company, is in the top 20 of richest nations in the world. Companies have the lead, and the people are standing small if they are not working for Meta or the other runaway behemoths that cannot be controlled by society.
In the USA, we let the monsters loose as if there is no democratic institution at all. Democracy does not matter, and the EU has to jump in to control these American behemoths, successful in small though important ways, making them behave better.
The political reality showcases how Trump is a political monster, and a dinosaur to boot. He represents the elite in this nation, not caring at all about all, just about themselves. In November, we are going to vote between two dinosaurs, one a monster, the other trying to not be a monster but still letting major institutions be monsters and not going to change them either.
Both parties are Red parties.
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That is then the opposite story in which we are not ending in one glorious all-in-one melded final conclusion, but rather dissect the parts in which we live. The two are not two. The two are one, and the ones that are not part of this one are actually larger than the two that are one. The voters are getting the middle finger all the way into high heaven.
They are not us. We are not them.
The USA is not one of the happiest nations in the world. We could not be because we are not taking care of all people in the USA. We divided ourselves to the bone, and then some. We pitted ourselves one against the other.
You see? Your melding things into one, that is the problem. You think we are the two parties. You do not see the masses that are excluded even when they did partake in elections. There is no one in the end. It is one big fat two, or three, or fifteen if you like. It is not one.
My hope?
Trump and Biden die on the same day (of old age, not because of violence) still this year, months before the election, and we get two fresh candidates who both want to dismantle the crummy backward democracy we have today.
