you can handle the truth

the truth is: the hyper-rich use politicians as their proxies to get things they want done. 

the hyper-rich do not care that the country is deteriorating, that people are out of work, can't get health insurance, or in fact, anything to do with the "general population". they only want more money and more power. 

the politicians (mostly the ones who think they are Republicans) enjoy working with these hyper-rich because they see the power as flowing through them, and of course sometimes there are kickbacks. then their very clever wordplay fools middle- and lower- income people into believing their hyperbole. 

Bush used his brother's focus-group studies in FL to figure out exactly what words to use to get people to agree with a stated policy (btw, the focus-group person was Rove). It worked. Now, those same tactics get the "right words" which are then are fed to the haters in the media. 

Eventually you have very angry "conservative voters" who actually don't understand the real issues at all but are very vocal. through commitment bias they keep hot button red herrings at the ready, which helps nearly everyone take their eyes off the ball. 

this perpetuates the class disagreement/war and ensures obfuscation of meaningful dialog and subsequent sensible progress.