I’ve been very fortunate to have been able to travel fairly extensively around this country the past 3 years (until shut down by the ‘rona). I’ve gone out of my way to meet people of all colors and persuasions all over this country and have thoroughly enjoyed the interactions. If there is one thing I found to be almost certain, is that we’re all pretty much the same, and given “equal” opportunity we’d all get along pretty well in general. We all want the same things (decent jobs, healthcare, a roof over our heads, food on the table, respect for our personal rights, freedom from need, etc, etc, etc). The only real difference is that pretty much everyone has a different idea of how to achieve our wants and who or what is standing in the way of us achieving them. And the politicians of any stripe are bending over backwards to exploit those differences as a way of keeping us at each other’s throats so they can fleece us as we fight. Not that that it is an earth shattering revelation, but it is the politicians who are most responsible for the class divisions in this country. They can’t get elected (or reelected) if they’re seen kissing the “wrong” asses. And as long as we keep electing the same old cynical opportunists who play to our most base fears, we’ll continue the long, slow, interminable slide down the side of the toilet bowl.....we care too much about individual needs at the expense of everyone’s needs.