Totally agree with your sentence!! And anyone, please, tell me I'm an idiot and conspiracy theorist but I think the distraction continued to be pushed by politicians and the media is doing such an effective job. We will be in the "what about" and "well, the other side is worse" phase while what WE ALL should be raging about is all of our finite natural resources being used and abused. For example, Corpus is going to be the first American city to face a no shit, actual water crisis. The Colorado can't handle the water needs along its banks. The Columbia is the same.
Next we have these tariffs in place to price farmers out of their land so they can be bought pennies on the dollar. But us consumers are the one really getting hammered. So on and so on.
I don't have my tinfoil hat on but the decisiveness is such a great distraction. Billionaires have gotten even more rich while the poor are getting hammered thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill. And they are in a position to continue to buy up most of America's resources and industries. But media owners are able to make us focus on what's not important. A good example is the cancel culture. To wit, when everyone wanted to boycott Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch owns the beers that everyone switched to. So go ahead and boycott whatever, whatever you choose instead is still owned by the same people.
I'm not saying there's some global or national conspiracy being run by billionaires but when they control the media and therefore the narrative, that paper editor or news director will generally do what their told. And this continues to distract us from private equity firms buying houses, HVAC companies, hospitals, farms, etc.
When these national divisions happen, I always ask myself "Who benefits".
Am I crazy? Sheesh