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For one, propaganda is a hell of a drug. Fox ~~two minutes hate~~ "news" will tell anyone who listens that every single problem you have is the fault of ~~Goldstein~~ liberals/leftists/Democrats.
A point for Trump is that "conservatives" are also completely jaded and cynical about the system as well as we are, their chosen method is to use Trump to burn it all to the ground and "start new" with their "strong man" who will force the change they want to see. They see Biden as a feckless, weak, liberal who not only can't fix the issues we have, but won't do it because he's in x,y,z persons pocket (completely ignoring that Trump doesn't need to have someone to serve as he's serving himself.)
I think we're all fed up with the system, but the neoliberal greed is good 80s assholes will continue the beatings until morale is improved.
I didn't quite understand your last paragraph
Those in government that make the rules are following the Gordon Gekko "greed is good" mentality (from a movie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gekko) that corporations should always seek maximum profit because It Will Make Us All Richer™ (somehow?) everyone driven by self interest will grow the economy, etc.... and they'll continue to enforce that mentality to the detriment of us all.
We'll keep suffering and the extremist views of left and right will continue to grow in response so "the beatings will continue until morale improves" joke implys that they're going to continue to do the same thing that's driving us insane and somehow expect the results to change for the better.