It's always the middle

For some reason, after reading the chapter on the rhizome I couldn't help but consider how politics is necessarily rhizomatic. That is, you have your arborescence existent in the democratic and republican parties but when it's time to campaign, you have to sell yourself as the rhizomatic candidate. The one that is connected to every demographic, every person, every industry, every dot, and is, neverthless, not better; a first among equals; one of you. The rest of the time, a party can have its extreme positions but the tree must masquerade as grass or it will be chopped down. The nagging question for voters, which one is more multiple. Of course, due to the impossibility of holding every view possible, the rhizome ends up false and incomplete. This rhizome exists within the binary logic of this or that candidate and this or that position. The campaigns are forced to create a false rhizome out of the binary logic that's been handed to them; and once elected are expected to continue in that rhizomatic middle while existing in a new hierarchical system of binary decision-making.