I think i agree with some of Bigga's sentiments about the 2 party system in the USA, i think it's rather bad for democracy in the long run and it also narrows the political choice. Especially issue's like the level of gerrymandering and the fading boundaries between institutions like senate and Supreme court for what regards the devission of powers.
Personally i think that "Left" and "right" for a large part should unite against the growing power of the wealthy elite. In truth many of the poor people that vote for Trump for economic gain will likely prove misguided, but thats the poor on the right whereas among the left you won't find much issue with tackling the power of the wealthy elite.
Fact imho is we should all be earning much more for less hours worked simply because of the growing levels of automation within our economic system, as automation has that potential to give you more output for less manual labour. But at this moment the capitalist get all the benifits of automatisation trough holding the means of production and the impotence of states in the face of globalisatin, whereas it's still the product of society as a whole that we can have this level automation.
Our leaders are always on the lookout for scapegoats so to drive away the attention from the method in which they are constantly increasing their wealth and consequent power.
This really should be the graph that defines politics in our time. This is a trend that has continued for decades now already. It doesn't help that country's like the USA are getting more lax on campaign funding laws while taxes are continuisly lowered for them too.
Much of modern politics is a tapestry of clever semantics designed to drive attention away from this, because there is simply no good or nessecary reason for the wealth gap to be increasing like that. And let me add that this isn't a socialist position per se, one can perfectly be right wing and pro capitalism and still speak against this growing wealth devide for the same reasons.
Excellent post