This is where it would have been nice if they’d actually succeeded in outlawing political parties. In the end political parties want power, the ideology is there to serve the acquisition of power and nothing else. Which is why they’re so good at agreeing on things that impede 3rd parties and internal rebellions.
The sad fact of the matter is, big business has been able to buy 90% of the politicians in D.C. It was always bad, but the past 20 years or so, it has gotten much worse.More importantly, American businessmen are not nearly as patriotic as they once were. They are more often than not, amoral, and devoid of ethics.