Like, I kind of assumed they were a artificially cultivated long con by American (or perhaps anglo in general) politicians made up to consolidate power but it sounds like they're kind of a recurring thing across several civilizations
Like, I kind of assumed they were a artificially cultivated long con by American (or perhaps anglo in general) politicians made up to consolidate power but it sounds like they're kind of a recurring thing across several civilizations
I can't speak for all civilizations, but the political divides for a lot of US history came down to beefs between the urban industrial / finance capitalists and rural landowner capitalists.
Those lines got blurred from the mid 20th century onward, but you can still see echoes of it in how the GOP is the party of small businesses and resource extraction capital and Democrats are the party of the professional class, stock traders and international finance.