The people in power have the best education the country can provide and they are knowingly making public education worse. I think you're being too nice with them, they're voluntarily making things worse @Ch'ti
I agree with the education part. A fact, tragically displayed by a country that wealth-gated higher education for generations and is now speed running the transition into fascism.
I don't have the solution to all Of the world's problems, but I know for a fact that education is the thing that has the best chance of saving us, but given the people at the head of the country...
Unqualified people vote to put even less qualified people in power. Plato, with his "Republic," already saw the problem two millennia ago, but the solution he proposed was completely stupid.
I remember that the musician Jacques Brel, a rather left-winger, once said, "Put 11 idiots on one side, 10 philosophers on the other. The idiots will win. That's democracy." It sounds brutal, but it's also a part of the problem.
It's not about hating the people, it's about hating the fact they exist. When we say "eat the rich", we don't mean people who worked their way into what used to be the middle class. We're talking about billionaires.