A simple question. Did they always have some vested interests in working together yet appear as red vs blue or were they separate then slowly coalesse over the years into becoming a unified deep state?
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The real answer to this question is in about the end of the civil war. The wrong side won the civil war in the USA. The end of the civil war brought about changes to the patronage/spoils system in the USA where politicians were able to reward their friends and similar like-minded people when they won elections with positions of power that paid well, hence spoils system. This essentially allowed politicians in the USA to not care about corporations and corporate interests because you could get rich off politics itself. When this system was abolished, corporations gained significant influence in politics because now the only real way to get rich off politics was to be backed by corporations and have corporate interests at heart instead of political interests. This led to the Uniparty. The patronage system was abolished officially in 1883 and the result of that was essentially the creation of the central bank in 1913. The USA has been "Uniparty" ever since. Had the Confederates won the civil war, things would have advanced quite differently and the USA likely would be a much better country.