Billionaires have been either destroying or weakening our hard won New Deal gains decade after decade. We're kept just smart enough to keep the trains running on time and too busy fighting one another to really care about much else. We need to both neuter the wealth class and reeducate the masses. "We" being all that know what's really been going on regardless of Party affiliation. Manufacturing Consent and the Shock Doctrine have been all too real. Both being "liberal" and "conservative" are excellent human traits. Neither is intrinsically bad or wrong. Pointing and whining is all Trump and trolls accomplish. We can do better by either getting together to help fix the problems or getting out of the way.
There's quite a bit above with which I can agree - with some gripes in the details. Much more interesting than what the billionaires have been doing would be with what the population and the political class went along, and why. "Reeducating the masses" sounds nice, but just look at the performance of BS Hose on this thread to get a notion as to the magnitude of that task. There is no "getting together" with folks who live on conservative supremacy fantasy island, who would avoid contact for fear that would poison their precious bodily fluids with the "liberal disease" - again, look to BS Hose for clues. Also, for citizens there is no "getting out of the way", just "in it together".
Taken together, that was President Obama's conundrum: Going out of his way in his hope to meet both the loyal opposition and the disparate population on a sold ground of knowable facts, he failed, not for lack of effort, but for lack of interest in facts on the other side, and on the side of large parts of the population. The latter then resolved to elect a celebrity buffoon who wouldn't require from them the hard work of gathering information and thinking things through.
The biggest problem, second only to money in politics, is pervasive intellectual laziness, and that is most pervasive in the disinterested, apathetic, bumper-sticker attention span, celebrity-obsessed, apolitical "middle" - the ones some on here hail as the nation's savior. That in and of itself is toxic, as folks without an ideological background are most easily led and manipulated, the very sheep fascists, Trump, and Boris Johnson, lately, have chosen as their main marks with scathing attacks on anything and anyone "political". Countering that, most admirably, would be professor candidate Warren, solidly factual and resolutely, unapologetically political. Of course, the "middle!" bleaters and the (extreme) right are all united decrying her as "left fringe".