All this is the consequence of 2 generations ofessentially the same Congressional and Executive leadership..they basically ran off or suppressed any meaningful impediment to their incremental accumulation of power. That’s all it is.
Any factory empowering a local middle-class enclave was shut down. Can’t have “nobodies” with their own money and ideas-they tend to argue with the mini-minds we’ve allowed to presumptively rule us.
We’re in a real mess, that’s all I know. I don’t see any silver bullets to help. I can’t say at this point that going more left or right can do anything. Either way, we’re pretty sunk for at least awhile.