Most people openly identify themselves as Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, right wing or left wing. But this identification just lends more power to those at the top of the piles (Republican or Democrat) who are visibly using money and power at our collective expense while hiding under a thin veil of divisive party “philosophies.” And yet this institutionalized notion of right and left wing is still supported by the public majority, who are somehow convinced that an institutional body whose job is explicitly to gain and maintain power and influence in competition with others has our society’s individual and collective best interests in mind.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats begins with rifts so great it might seem they could never have parallel direction, and yet they end up doing exactly the same things and support/are supported by the same elements of the status quo. The dividing line of the right and left wing is not as smooth as the spine line of an eagle or any bird, it is more like a zig zag zipper line, but they still fit neatly together, limiting public debate to the narrowest field of difference while creating the illusion of genuine deliberation.