I remember a wiser elder in my family saying that the liberals and the conservatives in the US actually wanted the same result...opportunity for having a better life etc...but they just disagreed on how to get there. I have always believed that although perhaps that was naive.

I feel that now we don’t even agree on what the result we want is. It strikes me, and perhaps this is my slanted view on things, that it is about power for me and I don’t care if it means no or less chance of opportunity for you.

Or, is it like a wiser friend of mine said that the US is actually a feudal system disguised in a pseudo-democracy where the money/landed gentry types have the power and it has actually always been minority rule and what we are seeing now is just the normal natural end/ death throes of a feudal system?