Maybe we're all just Shadow-Boxing

Someone recently said this. It, at the time, seemed so true to me, in far more ways than the poster intended. In our political system, as we are in a system of two large-scale powers, Democrat and Republican, simple process dictates that eventually One of the following final resolutions will occur.  

One will destroy the other and absorb its remnants. 

Both will grind against each other until they eventually join together. 

Both will grind against each other until they both are eventually destroyed and new large-scale powers take over. 

Both will willingly join together as a single act of unison. 

Well, we know that the eventual results are going to be roughly the same regardless of how the situation develops. So, we have knowledge of the closed circle, so to speak. With this knowledge, we can, instead of toiling and struggling and arriving at the eventual goal, simply change. We as intelligent people the world over, can simply change, if we all agree to the reason for it. The problem is, we're busy in a shadow-boxing match. While we do in fact have an opponent, we are still shadow-boxing. The reason is because our opponent does nothing but react to the actions of the other. One takes an initial action, and then everything is a reaction from there. The initiating action in this case, was nothing more than the first contact. We are literally fighting our shadows, the reaction to our action. We will, as these large scale powers, continue to grind against each other until either the square peg fits in the round hole, the round peg fits in the square hole, both pegs and holes are destroyed, or the pegs and holes figure out how to understand each other. This doesn't just describe Democrats and Republicans, but also Russia, UK, USA, China, et al. Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Atheism, et al.  

What I say is, if we understand how the shadow changes to us, then we can halt the reaction. We can stop the reactions, the revenge, the repeating hostilities, and many other re- words. But we can do more than stop it, we can reverse it. Once we understand the system, we understand how to manipulate it. Once we can manipulate it, we can turn events in our own favor. If, with understanding of the system at hand, we literally decide to work for the greater good of everyone, without sides, we can join together. The only thing it would take, is entire, unfiltered, unresistable agreement. Agreement not on a concept, but on a reason. A simple reason. The reason of survival and happiness. The one reason which can appeal to any aspect of any person of any country. If we as a whole can decide on this, we will step forth from our times of trials and labors to learn our lessons good and bad. We will coexist, and flourish, as we learn the lessons without feeling the pain, for we understand them. 

It may sound fanciful, it may sound drastic, it may sound like one random person's fevered dreams, but I urge you to think about it, and ask one question not of me, not of another, not of a god, but of yourself. Is it possible? Find your own answer, mine is my own, and I have already found it.