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The country was never bright and shiny as people delude themselves it was.
It only appeared so with a sanctioned, massive underclass of second class citizens making life feel effortless for the preferred class.
That is what the non-wealthy right-wing craves, a return to Jim-Crow and societal preferential treatment for whites.
The reality though is that the wealth class that owns both wings simply didn't want to share prosperity with anyone anymore, even the once elevated poories that shared their skin tone and culture/religion. Capitalism always needs to grow/metastasize, and in a finite world, that means eventually eating itself, that started with betraying their favorite lil wage slaves in the wake of the civil rights movement, because we all know that wasn't going to mean lifting the massive underclass up economically which would require more equitable profit distribution, and today's megacorps are so hungry and desperate for growth in end stage capitalism that they're literally consuming other mega corps leaving us with monopolies that have abandoned their own products and service quality but are too big to fail and own their own regulatory bodies.
There was always an underclass in the US, tokens aside, modern Republican voters are just irate that they are now part of that underclass. The American right still believes racial solidarity will be their salvation, the truth is the ones with all the capital no longer see color, only net worth to determine if you are a person like them, or one of their capital generating livestock like us.
As always, the real war that informs all others is class war. All the other -isms are used as tools by the owner class, who always owns the means of mass propaganda btw, to manipulate all the classes below them to compete AGAINST one another instead of uniting against their common enemy.
Divide and profit.