I don't know how well-organized it is. I'm sure there is a good deal of infighting and competition between the major players. Still, I think they they all share certain broad-ranging interests in common and that is why they tend to agree on basic policy such as:

***de-regulating banks to allow the easy creation of vast amounts of phony money***

***protecting specific industries such as the corn-growing industry or the oil industry...

***extending the power of the pharmaceutical industry and regulating many of its natural health competitors out of existence...

I'm saying that they basically agree on a general approach which favors the very rich...and the very LARGE...and enables them to grow even richer....at the expense of their small competitors. It favors large corporate entities, it squeezes out small business.

I don't call that a "conspiracy". I call it a philosophy. An attitude. A way of conducting business. A self-feeding process where the largest players promote any legislation that protects the LARGE and shuts out the small.

Since the major funders have common interests in maintaining that way of conducting business, and since it benefits all of them to a considerable extent, they influence both parties to support and maintain such an approach through legislation.

Thus we have seen de-regulation of the banking system since the Ronald Reagan era, and that de-regulation has grossly inflated the money supply and bankrupted the society. This was a disaster for most people, but it has not been a disaster for the very wealthy. They have done exceedingly well and increased their earnings by a large margin.

Again, I don't call that a "conspiracy"...I call it a philosophy, a set of beliefs, a way of doing business. When you have a situation where words like "liberal" and "socialism" have been demonized to the extent that people in the USA are afraid of them, you have a society dominated by a Far Right corporate philosophical mindbent that perpetuates those policies I'm alluding to. Were the Nazis a conspiracy? No. They were a political philosophy in action...a tragically unhealthy and misdirected political philosophy.

That's what I see guiding the 2 parties in the USA...a tragically unhealthy and misdirected political philosophy, one based primarily on making the most money for those few at the top, one that has resulted in fiscal irresponsibility on a grand scale, and both parties have been complicit in serving that political philosophy, because they are both being funded by it.

For gosh sakes, you don't HAVE a real Left in the USA any longer. There hasn't been a real Left in the USA since the end of the 1960s. What you have is 2 rightwing parties, one that is rabidly rightwing, one that is tepidly rightwing, both of them serving the banking system and the major corporations and the military...both of them engaging in unjust foreign wars fought on the basis of outright lies....both of them forging an overseas empire through military occupation and client regimes.

What do I call that? I call it Fascism. That's what you have in the USA...a 2-party fascist system that is still vainly imagining itself to be "a democracy"...when all it does is choose one or the other wing of the same Eagle of War at 2 to 4 year intervals. The face of the "leader" changes (like changing a mask), but the Eagle of War flies on.

You put your hopes always on the new "leader", but those hopes are in vain. He's just an errand boy, in my opinion. He is not the power, he's the outer face you see...the mask placed in front of the real power. The real power is not one man....it's an imperial philosophy that moves many men, and they are rich men, and they find many willing soldiers among the poor to do their bidding, just as rich men have always done. The rich can hire the poor. They can arm them. They can point them at "the enemy" (the other poor). It has been happening that way for thousands of years. Its epicenter moves around, of course. Once it was in Rome. Once it was in London. Once it was in Madrid. Once it was in Berlin. Once it was in Paris. Now it's in New York and Washington (and London still, I expect).