I was going to point out that they and most corporations give to both sides of the establishment but you beat me to it.

I largely see the left vs. right conflict as a manufactured distraction. If one looks around, both sides of the establishment push the same agenda despite what their rhetoric sounds like. Reagan signed gun control into law and raised taxes. Obama increased drone strikes and domestic spying and raided more medical marijuana producers in his first four years than George W. Bush did in eight. I think it is meant to keep us bickering with each other while those with the power steal our wealth, exploit our labor, and remove our "inconvenient" rights.

Sadly, a lot of people are easily led and that message is not one that is allowed to be presented in mainstream culture so, instead, we have a society that is really only concerned with punishing people for breaking social taboos. Which taboo depends on the ideology of each individual but it is almost always something that is not a real issue. That stuff gets the focus, and the establishment can continue to screw us all over while we argue about who said which 'naughty' word or who likes to put what int their butthole lol.

It looks like it is working too and that is unfortunate. I don't know what the answer really is but it seems clear that the intense kind of division that we are seeing is a real threat to those us who value out autonomy regardless of what one's political leanings might be.