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Because the capitalist class needs to find ways to make up for their falling rate of profit, and the only tool available to them within the US is to swallow up and/or destroy public services. By wielding bourgeois politics to reduce their tax rates they force important social services to go underfunded. When those underfunded services fail to deliver for the public, the capitalists can then use that as justification for privatizing those services, swallowing up their assets and employees at low cost, squeezing them for a big short-term injection of profits, and then dumping those ruined services. All public goods become first degraded, then privatized, then destroyed - in the end, this only further contributes to the declining rate of profit, because public goods and services (from education to parks to transit and on and on) improve the productivity of the working class. But investing in them directly reduces short term profits and cannot compete with the rapid profits available through the above destructive process.
Add in the racial/colonial aspect of American society and it becomes easier and easier to propagandize that process because you can just blame Black people.