It has always been like this.

For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren't really independent bourgeoisie.

Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.

What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn't had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That's what capitalism is.

me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago