Overall both conservatives and liberals are concerned that society is unfair.
There is a running talking point among conservatives that, the hard working people are footing the bill for the lazy bums. This is a desire to address a fair playing field. Why do I pay more in taxes and receive the same benefits as someone who pays less?
Liberals want equal opportunity for people who happened to be born on an unlucky day. And they support what measures to address this unfairness... such as free college or UHC.
Both want a fair society, how do we get there?
Well for starters we should rephrase the opening premise. The hard working people are the growing poor and dwindling middle class, not Wall Street or the donor class. Corporations like Walmart for example pay full time workers so little that Walmart also assists them in getting onto govt assistance. We are not subsidizing the working poor, we are subsidizing Walmart's bottom line. Working class and poor folk subsidize big oil, big pharma, pro sports team owners, big agribusiness, Wall Street and on, and on.
The lazy bums are the predatory donor class/"job creator" class/Wall Street who we offer socialism when they sodomize the economic system; you know, that crowd. And yeah, the hard working people are footing the bill for those lazy predatory bums who bought up any semblance of democracy the US ever had. Just like they bought up the US media landscape once Clinton deregulated the FCC.
Why? Same reason they bought up our democracy; to prevent the people from reaching for a fair society which is diametrically opposed to the agenda of the ruling class; and to foment division amongst the masses. Revisit Bacon's Rebellion, this is nothing new on the North American continent. And look at how successful that has been; we buy into this mind**** “libs versus cons” shtick without questioning it at all. Race, they bait the hell outta that, still. Fear. Endless wars of profiteering. Them darkies are taking all your stuff. They bought up the media to control the narrative, "information", and would be independent journalism. Back in the 1980s there were 50 some odd companies on the US media landscape. Now the entire thing is in the hands of 6 multinational corporations who essentially all push the same perceptual reality, and the division. I see no difference at all between outlets like MSNBC, FOX, CNN, or any of them; all push the same perceptual reality. Meanwhile, now half of our fellow citizens drag home less than $30K per year - in THIS economic system. Social mobility in the US is a thing of the past unless one accepts unidirectional mobility downward
There is no answer to any of this working within the system, the system is doing exactly what it was designed to do; protect the status quo and the ruling political donor class at the expense of society at large. Vote all you like, stay in your chosen political camp and watch the societal wealth extraction continue unabated. The power structure knows full well it has lost all semblance of legitimacy and that the calm will most certainly erupt at some point. That's why police departments have been militarized, corporations have moved into the growing for profit prison business with a return to convict leasing and Americans have become THE most surveilled population the planet has ever seen.
What is to be done was your question? It's rather simple actually and merely requires the efforts of a critical mass of the population. It requires no arms, protests or acts of civil disobedience; no revolt at all in the usual sense. No letters to politicians. No blocking traffic. No marching. No torches. No targeting of minorities or out groups. No signs, bumper stickers, facebook posts, tweets, broken windows, fires, letters to the editor. It doesn’t even require voting.
Just stop participating in the big lie that is America. Every day when you get up decide that today I will not participate in or cooperate with the lie; I will call out the lie. The last thing any power structure ever wanted to confront was a coherent, thinking human being, much less a collection of them. That’s why the system needed to control the media machine – to control the perceptual reality of the subjects. For an example, imagine the perturbation to the system the people could trigger if say a third or a half of the population decided not to spend any money at all for a day. Or a week. Or maybe a month. Imagine the perturbation to the system the people could trigger if say a third or a half of the population decided not to spend any money at all and not to go to work or send their kids to school for a day. Or a week. Or maybe a month.
A little organization and preparation in noncooperation and nonparticipation would bring things readily apparent to the system who has real power, all they have is authority which by deffinition is always on shaky ground.