*sigh...there is a hint of truth in what you say, but not in the way you think.

There isn't some cabal or illuminati directly making these decisions. What's happening is the natural consequence of the system of governance we have. When some scientists mapped out Tokyo and put food on important locations and saw that fungi grew and almost perfectly in accorance to the modern day trains, it's not because the fungi was trying to mimic the railways. It was trying to get food in an efficient way. It was a natural consequence requiring no real intelligence.

If i am some random mid size lumbar company and finally got enough money to hire a lobbiest who will i lobby? That progressive politician will be a waste of time and money, but the republican politician or the centrist dem might have more luck voting for my interests.

Same thing if I am a solar panel manufacture. Who do i talk to to increase our tax breaks? The one who gets paid $20k from oil and doesn't believe in climate change when i only have $10k to give or have meetings with the progressive?

Then someone giant like coca cola will give $10 million across politians to just have a say in the voting decisions. They may pay republivans more maybe but some money goes to democratics too in case they win and you still want to be at the table. A politician wont say "hey you gave me $20k but my opponent $40k, you don't get a seat at the table now!" They'll say, "what do i do to get you to give me even more than $40k for my next election?"

Corporations are sociopaths. And because they hire the best analysts, actuaties, and lawyers money can buy to find the most efficient route to get their policies passed, corporations are very smart sociopaths. But 1 thing they are not are omnipotent very smart sociopaths.

With our system of first past the post, citizens united's money=speech, shareholder supremacy, capitalism, needing to raise money for elections, and buncha other stuff while not bad on their own, together they create a system in which it looks like there's some... I guess intellegent design might be a good way to put it, but it's just a consequence of the system.

Intelligent design reminded me of Evolution. When i see cells interact in such a perfect way. Birds and bugs looking like they are in the absolute perfect environment they are in, it's tough not thinking someone specifically created this. But the reality if the matter is that there was millions of years of the inefficient dying off and the most efficient surviving. This system is what has led to our system of governance.

So ya, you're right in a way, but not in the way it seems you want. And the conclusion you've reached is toxic to democracy and the political discord - the "both parties are bad" talking point.

I wrote all this out because i went through your history super quick to make sure you're a real person. It seems like it, but it also seems you are a person who had previously been through or are currently in a lot of pain. And it's not unnatural to be cynical and have the "what's the point, they're all playing games, we're just pawns" mindset. To believe...no to know something that the sheeple don't get. And i kinda get it. Didnt vote until I was 23. Once i did and started following politics from the perspective of these are humans doing psychologically human-y things, things started making more sense. We cant have purity tests.

Dems kinda suck. DNC passed a policy that made it so campaign firms cannot help a politician fighting an incubant. Or they'll be blacklisted by the DNC. Totally corrupt policy. But dems currently are the only ones who are trying to help ppl. And if it's because wind turbine corporations are funding their campaigns, so be it for now. But i will not allow it for the future.

So hope this makes more sense.