What you say is logical, reasonable, and makes a lot of sense. Except for one thing.
All that you see and are postulating is based on the premise that America has a small ruling class and a massive borderline serf class with no power, and that is simply not true.
There are the rich and the uber-rich, that is true. There is also a 'poor' class comprised mostly of people with severe disadvantages such as no education or sk**ls or some level of disabilities. And yet America has the 'richest' poor class in the world. Virtually every family has a roof, food, a large TV, internet, vehicles, and most every person over ten has a smart phone. There is more ample help available through government and charitable agencies. I KNOW, because my family is involved in both. There are exceptions, but they are mostly made up of the mentally ill and self inflicted personal issues, such as drug and alcohol abuse.
But both of these 'classes' are in the minority. The vast majority of Americans are like you and me, and live in the middle class. Sure, it would be nice to have more, but we have the necessities and quite a lot of luxuries. We live in nice homes with AC, usually with multiple vehicles, we get paid OT for anything over 40 hours a week, we have computers and smart phones and video games and access to ridiculous amounts of entertainment.
But the most important point is that EVERY single one of us has POWER! The power to v**e, to ban together with others of like mind and demand changes and improvements and to use our massed power of the v**e to FORCE those changes.....if we can convince enough others to join in our cause.
THAT POWER is what is being threatened by the attempted socializing of America's agencies, the Democratic push to minimize capitalism, t***sform into a permanent nanny government, and most especially the leftest dominated education system and main stream media, which firmly believes the end justifies the means. It doesn't. Not in a free Republic.
My friend, we have so much in common, but please PLEASE re-evaluate what you are seeing in America. I spent almost 30 years as a member of a union, part of the AFL-CIO, including being an official and an elected representative in one of Texas larger locals. Thirty years of seeing them spoon feeding nonsense "information" to our members. Nothing but lies and distortions, year after year and decade after decade, I saw it from the mid-70s until after I retired, and beyond. All to boost their political influence with the Democrats. Because they are the same as the politicians you despise and fear. They believe the end justifies the means, and do not see how it corrupts the mind and soul.
We are both seeing the same evidence, and drawing entirely different conclusions. Please take a mental step back and do some objective evaluation, as I did in 1994 when I confronted my local's President about the political lying coming from our Union's office and from Washington DC. He admitted it, with the rationalization that the ends (defeating Republicans and conservatives) really DID justify the means, no matter how dishonest and despicable.
He had BECOME exactly what he routinely accused his political enemies of being. Something I have come to see as very common in the leftwing leadership.

Not a crock at all. Socialism is not evil. But Marxism has invariably led to socialism, which has invariably led to c*******m, which IS evil. Historically, this has been true every single time, unless capitalism was kept strongly in the mix. What is evil is the REASONS and GOALS the left have for pushing socialistic programs......control over the citizenry. A desire to have the power to control the populace. You know, what the left accuses Trump, incorrectly, of wanting to do.
Capitalism is better, the BEST of systems so far tried, not because it is inherently 'good', but because it works and creates the maximum amount of wealth for an individual willing to try. And anyone can do it. All they have to do is work hard, act smart, and they can profit from their own labor.
People like you and Milosia and Moldyoldie keep harping about the 'rich and powerful'. But authoritarian regimes all have a small extremely wealthy leader class, and a huge lower class of virtual serfs. Little or no middle class.
I started out with nothing. I paid attention in school, worked my way through college, got a decent job, and retired in the mid-middle class. Using nothing but my wits and my labor. The middle class in America is a direct result of our individual freedom to achieve, and our capitalistic system of rewards for labor. Community and state and federal cooperative programs are necessary for a few purposes due to funding and efficiency. But that is not the same as socialism.
You guys would destroy what we have by replacing it with socialistic programs based on 'equity' and 'fairness'.....both of which the elite leadership of the government would designate for us. We would wind up as an authoritarian banana republic.
No, thank you.

The South didn't "switch" to Republican, but gradually became Republican as they gave up their r****t Democrat/C*******t ways. If you consider how easily the useful i***ts of the left eat-up the lies their ideological masters feed them...the fact that they would deny/ignore their own history/policies/agenda isn't surprising. Talk about delusion...this one takes lots of practice, but l*****ts have plenty of practice lying to themselves/others so refusing to look at their own historical past, (not the sanitized want they want to believe,) is no problem