50% of Americans live at or near the poverty line.

That's the only fact you will ever need to understand what's going on.

The media would rather eat glass than publicise the fact the system is rigged.

Free trade = outsourcing to child labour/unregulated coolies. Open borders = lower wages/low trust/high crime/more health spending/low productivity labour force/lower IQ population. Tax havens = no tax for government to spend on infra.

Its not rocket science. Its just been obscured by the plutocracy.