I get what you mean.
The racial nonsense of any flavour is pure poison to human prosperity - everyone is trying to play a zero-sum-game, thinking they have to cheat others out of their wealth and opportunities because there cannot ever be enough for everyone.
About 10 years ago, two large movements - Occupy on the political left and the Tea Party on the right - were on the brink of realizing that they had more in common with each other than with powerful members of their respective sides who were using the oppressive power of the government against them.
And to avoid the rubes becoming too uppity, those in power ramped up all the racial, sexual, and social stuff at the same time, effectively taking the luxury belief of "political correctness" and turning it into the woke doom cult we know and pity today, which in turn spawned the anti-woke lot and started the culture war.
And since large amounts of people are so busy with that, they don't have the time or energy to realize that the government takes more than half of their money while restricting supply of ever more types of goods while creating ever more money so their assets nominally rise in value while pricing regular people out of such luxury goods as eggs or bloody salmon, let alone homes and cars.
“Those in power” can you elaborate on this?
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