I have been meaning to mention this. Has anyone noticed that many of those who are Trump sympathisers generally talk culture wars more, but less on class issues? My colleague said he agrees with what most of Trump says, but disagrees with the extreme measures. He is opinionated on gender debate, but hardly heard him talk about the tariffs (except when the stocks tanked back in April) or the welfare cuts and transfer of wealth to the elites with the big beautiful bill.

It is the same with my ex housemate. My former housemate supports Trump because of his non-interventionist foreign policy and tougher stance on immigration. Although tbf, he had been basing his support on Trump's previous term's fascist-lite policies, and probably didn't foresee the current POTUS going full Nazi. But even then, my ex-housemate hardly talks about economic issues.

Both traditional and new media intentionally polarises and divides people, with algorithms funneling only certain information to the electorates, while hiding other pertinent info. There is overemphasis on culture wars but minimises class issues, which is the root cause of social and economic decline.