I’m pretty sure you are being sarcastic @hebegebe, but in case you are genuinely curious, I refer of course to spokespeople of the 1% i.e. political leaders, heads of for-profit education companies, and similar.
As long as these folks can drum up resentment by the Walmart cashier for the firefighter over who “gets” health insurance, attention is diverted from the grossly unequal (and acceleratedly unequal) income opportunities in this country. Bonus points for convincing those who are doing well, that it was due solely to their own efforts. Extra bonus points if there is an outside group, perhaps immigrants, who can shoulder some blame for economic woes as well.
Note that I don’t mention income inequality, which I think could be argued is a necessary/healthy ingredient of capitalism - but the lack of equal opportunity. The “stickiness” of one’s SES level has never been stronger in American history. And don’t fool yourself: The people who benefit from our system have a lot of legal and political and public-opinion methods in place to keep it that way.