Spectacular insight, Pied Piper! Gold star for you! :-)

Actually, the American 2-party $ySStem IS a war...one which fights repeated useless and almost meaningless battles for the minds and hearts of America every 2 and 4 years.

And the whole exercise is merely to dupe people into imagining that they have a choice and a voice in running their country. They most certainly do NOT. They are a controlled and regulated population, spoonfed on a diet of unreality from the cradle to the grave.

Lincoln said, "You can't fool all the people all the time."

But if you can fool most of them, that's good enough for the $ySStem to maintain itself in power. The best way to keep them fooled is to divide them against one another through the 2-party $ySStem, and give them a foreign "enemy" to fear and fight. Works every time.