Other than some people on the right being the target of our disreputable media, there's really nothing new in any of this, and you then limit their lack of interest to only the working class people "in middle America", as though none exist along the coasts of this country, in a familiar refrain from the pity party snowflakes in flyover America. You're not the only ones getting shafted, if you look around. It is just this sort of tribalist thinking that those on the very top, both libs and cons, stoke to play their con, and it works.

In the 2003 WH correspondents' dinner, George W. Bush showed a video to the assembled that showed him looking, in a cute and clever way, for WMD in the Oval Office, and failing to find any, which, coincidentally, matched the reality in Iraq, because by that time, it had been admitted that none existed. Not that any of this mattered to those assembled, because they found it rip roaringly hilarious, perhaps because they, like W., had never been within 8,000 miles of combat, nor had any of their circle. Imagine being the president, who like his VP, not only lied us into war but were themselves both draft dodgers and still getting away with such behavior, not only getting away with it, but being the focus of admiring laughter.

Yes, they are the elite, they are out of touch, because they want to be, but the con is played by both the right and left media; to pretend otherwise is to prolong their undeserved position in society. See the problem in its entirety if fixing it is the objective.