What's up with the middle class being squashed between the left and the right?

Those that actually control us through our leaders have DESIGNED this system.

Everyone who buys into the left-right conundrum is just falling for the divide and conquer tactic. We are controlled by the corporate elite through our elected leaders, and it doesn't matter whether they are left or right, Dems or Repubs.

Corporate lobby MONEY buys our political parties. The influence they have extents to the choosing of party leaders. By the time 'we the people' vote in an election we are merely choosing from one of two of their pre-approved leaders which they control.

This is how it really works. The rest is smoke and mirrors. And they use the tried and tested tactic of pigeon-holing us into left & right so we can fight amongst each other and stay distracted. We must never look at the man behind the curtain.

Yes, one party may be less gay-friendly, or more pro-abortion, or any other mid level concern. But when it comes to war, or foreign policy, or borrowing money, the federal reserve, corporate handouts or any serious concern, you will notice that the two parties are always in lock step unity. In this respect, our controllers have ONE unified message. The politicians take what is ours and distributes it to it's masters. Be it money, influence, or boys to go die in some war for their benefit.

We aren't getting the shaft from both parties. We're getting the shaft from conservatism. Capitalists have basically abandoned American workers because they make more money from investments than from consumerism these days. Democrats try to fix the problems with new regulations, but profit-hungry corporations just use this action as cover to gouge workers and customers for even more profit. Meanwhile, Americans are kept distracted by drive-by media outlets and their shock jock accusations about how its government regulations, which have been drastically over the last thirty years, that have been hurting the prosperity of middle class Americans.

For example, just think about how many middle class Americans were duped into investing in artificially inflated real estate, based on unregulated speculation about the growth of housing markets, only to discover that real estate wasn't worth so much when housing markets eventually collapsed because suckers discovered their unregulated mortgage agreements were unaffordable after the introductory rates wore off. And just think of how many of those Americans also discovered their own pensions and investments lost money because those funds were duped into buying into unregulated, toxic stock options created by from loans for these over-priced homes. Meanwhile, rich bankers made millions and were paid millions more in government bailouts when the economy collapsed, all the while telling us how it was government regulation that forced them to do this to our country. It's not both sides that are hurting our country; it's really just one side, who would prefer to keep us distracted from focusing our attention on them.