I think that's because we don't have any kind of unifying force in the middle class here to combat the divisive ones. Middle and lower class people have next to

I think that's because we don't have any kind of unifying force in the middle class here to combat the divisive ones. Middle and lower class people have next to no political clout because we're made up of a bunch of adversarial subgroups with their own adversarial subgroups. Democrats and Republicans are both carefully maintained as parties of the rich by encouraging extreme partisanship and propagandizing different versions of reality to different targets.