Good opening post K-Dog. When it comes to terms like left or right-wing a lot of it is relative. What seems left today was more central previously and any opposition towards capitalism died when the Soviet Union collapsed. These days, despite its massive shortcomings, the belief in the overall system is high. It is due to this faith that when people make criticisms it often directed at either corrupt politicians, power hungry corporations or some hidden "elite" that are the cause of these problems. In short, we have a management/leadership problem and not a systemic one.

The issue here is even if we got rid of all those bad politicians, brought big corp to heel AND got the guillotine out to kill the elite (who have addresses) this wouldn't be enough to solve things. The system itself needs to be changed. Problem is most people are wedded to capitalism and will not criticise it.

Moreover, the vast majority of people still believe the narrative that our ingenuity and technology will find a solution to any problem. Global warming and resource depletion are just temporary roadblocks to our inevitable progress to that Star Trek future. To get this future and make America great again we just need the right people to direct things and everything will be okay.