Fundamentally I agree with you, but the ruling class has only ever served the ruling class. I used to be optimistic about the state of our nation and that "eventually" the "right" people would be voted into power and change the system for the better, but time has only proven that to not be so.
Now that being said, I'm not a doomer. There will be a revolution in this country of some kind at some point, but it's not going to be by using the system/state as it exists currently, just hope it's before it's too late/ the planet literally catches fire.
big ups
class unity for elites is nothing new, it just manifests itself in the us government today. the american capacity to self educate has been increasingly prominent though with the internet (esp in the last 6 years), so I've felt good about things for the most part. they're getting more desperate each year since occupy, even just straight up detaining journalists and admitting direct intelligence cooperation with social media companies lol, very dangerous for the public but also makes it way easier to notice that this is real