Only when the left awakes from their slumber
Only when the left awakes from their slumber will things meaningfully change.
When they stop falling for the tricks of neoliberal capitalist charlatans like Obama/Trudeau/Carney.
These charlatans utter lines that anybody can utter "pro gay!" "pro women!" and the crowd goes wild. But anybody can utter these lines.
Actions speak louder than words.
These neoliberal capitalists' actions have made, and continue to make life worse for the entire middle class, including the same minorities/groups they claim to care about. It is just virtue signalling.
That is how the oligarchical system stays in power. This has been going on for the past half century. Neoliberalism started in the 70s/80s. Since then, the middle/working class has been progressively worse off.
People have been tricked into conforming.
First, the neoliberals used external threats to rally people around the flag and pretend that they care about their people. This was the threat of the Soviet Union. The messaging was: if you don't support your neoliberal capitalist oppressors, you are a traitor and a communist. This was used to prevent any attempt at reforming the neoliberal capitalist system to make it more bearable for the middle/working class.
Then, they used another external boogeyman threat, "terrorism", even though they created this themselves to counter the Soviets.
Once terrorism no longer scared/preoccupied people, and the 2008 recession happened around the same time, people started to realize what kind of people were leading them. So this culminated in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement.
However, neoliberal charlatan Obama was used to crush this movement. In public he lied through his teeth that he supported this movement, but none of his actions did. And leaked documents later revealed he had set up the strongest possible federal level anti-terrorism security surveillance system to crush the movement, including contingency plans of having snipers on rooftops to take out peaceful protest leaders.
The 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement spooked the neoliberal oligarchy, which both the Democrats and Republicans work for/are part of. No longer having an external boogeyman to rally people around the flag to hypnotize with, they had to come up with another solution.
Their solution was to create polarization. Remember, it was a unified middle/working class that came together to create 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement. So they split "left" and "right".
They channeled people's anger caused by neoliberalism (which both the so called "left" and "right" Dems/Reps were part of/policies reflected) against each other, as opposed to against the neoliberal oligarchy/establishment (as was the case in 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement).
If you notice, this is when the polarization happened. The neoliberal oligarchy/establishment owns the mainstream media and big tech, so they used these to brainwash people. CNN attacked the right, Fox attacked the left. Facebook and other platforms also became breeding grounds for this.
Not long after, Republicans chose showman Trump to say a bunch of polarizing stuff to add this this effect.
The fact is Obama had 8 years and he did nothing. He just bought 8 years more for the establishment. Some people claim he had his hands tied by congress. But this is nonsense, because all you have to do is look at what he has been doing after leaving office. Never once has he criticized the system/neoliberalism. He instead continues to shill for the neoliberal establishment Democratic National Convention, by endorsing their puppet candidates like Biden/Hillary/Kamala. Biden was so bad that he offered absolutely nothing to the middle/working class to the point that Trump was RELECTED. Let that sink in.
So as long as the left continues to fall for these divide+conquer tactics, there will be problems. The right is a lost cause, that is why I am focusing on the left.
Here is a good article outlining the issue:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot