What you're witnessing in the US is not systems competing on their merit, but rather competing by throwing money at various social manipulation techniques, misi

What you're witnessing in the US is not systems competing on their merit, but rather competing by throwing money at various social manipulation techniques, misinformation campaigns and so on. That's not diversity of thought. That's lack of thought, with a few different colors of paint on each side. Tribalism isn't merely "competing ideas". It's literally the tribal members suppressing their own thought process in order to align WITH their tribe and AGAINST the other tribe. This alignment makes otherwise intelligent individuals collectively quite stupid and easy to mislead and manipulate.