The Yin Yang of Capitalism / Socialism: Examining The Ideological Relationships Driving America's Bipartisan Engine

As we enter a new century, the traditional competition between Socialism and Capitalism, Democrat and Republican is polarizing and becoming ‘Mutually Exclusive’. But does it need to be so? Often, the concept of yin-yang, is used to describe polar opposites and how seemingly contrary forces engage in mutually exclusive competitions in the natural world. Within this paradigm, the common misunderstanding is that they are antithetical and constantly trying to overcome the other. However the Asian paradigm understands that yin-yang is more accurately a complementary relationship because each can only exist in relation to the other... So, in actuality...the Yin-Yang are not so much exclusionary forces, but more like complementary opposites that interact within a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system…and as such neither can exist without the other. …Such is the virtual relationship between Socialism and Capitalism, left and right when they work together symbiotically within a true Democratic Republic.