Established political/corporate powers have a vested interest in maintaining this fiction that the Democratic Party – an organized criminal syndicate of warmongers and technocratic capitalists – represents the "left," and therefore everyone who opposes it must be the "right."
The GOP and GOP-adjacent media networks (Fox in particular) play their part as well; by framing the Democratic Party as the "far left," viewers start to associate ecological preservation and redistributive economic policies with the stupid, destructive politics of neoliberalism.
What we are left with is a nation engaging in meaningless debate on false terms while the mechanisms of corporate capital continue funneling labor value upward and turn millionaires into billionaires and jungles into parking lots while dipshits argue on Facebook about Dr. Suess.
One complaint about our time is that the US is "overly politicized." Really we are seeing the opposite: the total depoliticization of debate, courtesy of a press owned by billionaires, to produce a nonsensical hostility that numbs the political consciousness of an entire class.
"Liberal" and "conservative" have become apolitical identity signifiers people use to define themselves within a corporate-capitalist structure that *itself* goes unexamined, despite how significantly it shapes the moment-to-moment cultural reality they are always arguing about.
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