Americans have been deceived into thinking in terms of Democrat-Republican with one ‘side’ being good, the other evil. The two ‘sides’ play good cop-bad cop with a common goal of advancing the system.
If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.
Is there much difference between the elites who are destroying the US with wars, debt, and tyranny and the Americans who accept the wars, debt, and police state?