It's the Hegelian dialectic.

South is anarchy/liberty/freedom/voluntarism. North is totalitarianism. The "Left" Democrats are always going NorthWest. The "Right" Republicans are always going NorthEast.

Back and forth, fighting over which direction, as long as we're moving North, zigzaging as necessary to distract and hypnotize the masses. They pretend to fight about nonsense while actually fighting about important things in private arenas like closed boardrooms, secret societies, and NGOs - but they all agree on the matrix of rigged systems moving North. Their great Illuminati pyramid is just the very top of a octagon, with more options they don't want you to know about.

Republicans have the power, and are popular - yet are demonized. There really is no imbalance, just the illusion for some. And the Democrats are playing their roles well. As long as we're focused on them fighting we don't notice how we're all moving North.

Carrot and stick - whatever it takes. If you want to know how the powers that be work, I've outlined some of their Machiavellian psychology in the early part of this: https://infogalactic.com/info/Pedophocracy