This is really the last gasp of the boomers though. They took the prosperity their parents gave them and took it for themselves and once they ran out of prosperity to loot decided everyone else was to blame.
Hey boomers - your problems are entirely your own. You are the worst generation in US history.
This problem isn't limited to the boomers. Tribalism has plagued humanity throughout history. It is encoded into our DNA that there is an "us" and there is a "them." And that "us" deserves all the forgiveness in the world while the "them" must be punished.
The great psychological mindfuck right now has been using social media to get people to personally identify with their "us" in order to manipulate them. Something that conservatives are particularly susceptible to. FFS those people openly support govt agents murdering citizens in the streets just by getting them to identify with the govt agents doing the murdering.
Socialism, to conservatives, is really just the proposition that persons are created (legally and politically) equal. The whole 'stealing your stuff' bit is just the lie they tell themselves so they won't see their boots on the necks of others.
Likewise capitalism, to leftists, represents the entreched wealth given to those who were born into it, who hit a home run from 3rd base, and who are really just keeping the rest of us down with rent-seeking.
And for myself, I'm just a classical liberal who read too much Tolkein and Heinlein but stopped short of Rand's demand that John Galt get away with acting like he invented mathematics and the English language.