The popular narrative of a deeply polarized society falls short: when it comes to analyzing the actual core problem, people across the entire political spectrum are surprisingly united. Whether left, right, or completely non-political, a growing number of people feel intense financial pressure, fear falling out of the middle class, and worry about their children's future. Nobody voluntarily ends up in basic welfare or on the streets; the myth of "personal failure" merely hides the real economic forces pushing people to the margins.
