The mega rich and the rest of us.

If you look at voting distribution by income level this doesn't make sense.

And if you are gonna make the argument that people are brainwashed to think its left vs right, then you are automatically in favor of an authoritarian ruling class because people can't be trusted to make the right choice.

What choice? There is no real choice when a democracy is based on money - campaign funding, "donations", lobbying, etc.

Are you saying that people are gonna vote based only on who can "out media" the other candidate?

I didn't say anything about voting at all. I am saying the rich influence policies with their money.

Technological determinism and post-abundance scarcity. Everything is so WWI once again. Ideologies largely don't matter at all.