Disagree, our problems are caused by an out of control corrupt, greedy and incompetent U. S. government. And Congress is on the top of the list.
Government is bought and paid for by the oligarchs.
We are in a slow transition to a technological ghetto ruled by a few elite. Part of the transition is to destabilize the system until all idle workers die. That's why they are being herded into cities- kill zones.
I disagree. Those are just symptoms, the root cause is educational in nature: we have a citizenry that is woefully underinformed and seriously misinformed, in a whole series of areas. Preeminent, IMHO, are Civics and Economics.
The truth is that the franchise still exists, but it isn’t being exercised by an informed voting public. If people really understood the mid and long term consequences of what is going on, and was more immune to being distracted by bread and circuses, there not only wouldn’t be an oligarchy, there couldn’t be one.