The feeling of complete demoralization is now inescapable. It is, as the alt-right would say, now clown world everywhere - but not in the way that alt-righters think it is. There is absolutely no such thing as normal discourse anymore - just strident screaming, crying, shit-flinging, and miasmic vitriol. You know the one group of people who benefit from that rancorous environment? Wealthy elites, of course - big banks and their cohorts.
In the 2000s, when I was a kid, racism was at the lowest point that it's ever been in modern history. Hardly anyone was talking about racism, and gender ideology nonsense was almost nonexistent. All of this woke idpol hokum was started by a small group of wealthy elites who had a vested interest in spreading discord and dividing the common people along tribal lines - and, unfortunately, they succeeded. They successfully lured in young, vulnerable, freedom-loving people who thought that they would be fighting the good fight by joining the idpol crusade.
Now look where it got us. The western world has essentially split into two camps, neither of which has the truth on their side. The common people are mercilessly fighting each other non-stop, exactly as the wealthy elites want it. Duplicitous, Janus-faced wealthy elites pushed all of this extremely divisive woke idpol nonsense with gender ideology, mass immigration, and so forth for a very specific purpose. They turned western countries into swamps on purpose. They planned it all out in advance and they wanted it to happen this way. Why? Well, that's simple: if everything seems horrible and disgusting, then they can sell the common people the supposed "solution" of voting right-wing.
In the US, we never had much of a real choice. Much like the wealthy elites destroyed Occupy Wall Street by introducing the "progressive stack" and other divisive idpol bullshit into the movement, the wealthy elites also conspired to take out the likes of Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang and replace them with utterly despicable neoliberal weasels like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and, as a result, now we have Trump as president again (or, perhaps more accurately, we now have Elon Musk as president while the senile orange idiot serves as a figurehead). But it's not just Trump and Elon's American oligarchy where this can be observed in action. In Germany, for example, the far-right AfD party is now the second most popular political party in the country, and anyone who can look beyond their crude tribalist populism can see that they will simply make Germany even poorer. It's a party for the rich, just like the GOP. Again, the wealthy elites sell us the "solution" to a problem that they themselves created, and it's a "solution" that will just make the common people even poorer.
The powerful billionaire class has had complete control over public discourse for decades now, and they created two fronts for the common people to tear each other apart over: left vs. right. We all bought into it, and we all lost with it in the end. Everyone lost except for the billionaire class, who is now doing better than ever. The filthy rich oligarchs will simply keep getting richer and richer while everyone else keeps getting poorer and poorer. If you ever want to know why your life is shit... well, just follow the money.
