I wish more people understood your perspective. I have to say that I suspect the situation is even more dire now, because we have large corporations and some large mainstream corporate-driven media engaging in massive legislative capture that hurts the majority of people, while building a false narrative to convince people that they are being hurt by “others,” whether those others are poor people, immigrants, Muslims, etc. The truth is that too many businesses want to profit as much as possible by doing as little as possible, including exploiting workers and the environment. This has driven down wages and opportunity for productive work that leads to a living wage. At the same time, the stranglehold that many professional organizations and educational institutions have on training requirements, combined with well-intentioned but costly regulations on training, has dramatically raised the cost of education to where many cannot afford it and those that do often have massive debt when they successfully finish. At least in the U.S. both the right and left are engaging in similar tactics to pit people against each other. Neither side is very balanced, and neither actually takes the time to analyze and define problems, much less devise solutions. Instead, they would rather use labels and slogans (e.g., snowflake, libtard, “lock her up”, etc.) to distract us from the real problems and their causes.