Who's the enemy?
I keep coming back to the extreme oddness of the current situation in media, "churches", universities, and (less exclusively) business.

What's missing is normal marketing, normal desire to reach customers, normal competition.

In normal journalism you have two or three newspapers per city, each trying to grab a different piece of the audience by offering different opinions and styles.

In normal religion you have a dozen denominations, each trying to grab a different segment of believers by offering different theologies and styles.

In normal business you have a hundred companies, each trying to ... etc.

Historically, the only exception to competitive normalcy happens in Total War, when everyone understands that all religions and papers and companies must do their part to win the war. Customers also do their part, enduring shortages and bad service.

The current situation is identical to Total War. But who's the enemy?

In the case of "churches", it's easy. Normal humans trying to live a moral life are the enemy. Serious Christians and serious Muslims are the enemy.

With universities it's more confused. All believers except Buddhists are the enemy, but some universities give special privilege to token non-believing "Muslims" on account of fashionable victimhood, while ferociously opposing and smashing every aspect of Old Testament belief common to real Islam, real Christianity, and real Judaism.

With government it's even more confused on the surface, but in terms of consequences it always comes down to the same result. ZIRP economic policy prohibits the poor from 'bootstrapping' out of poverty by thrift, and forces them instead to borrow from the rich at high interest. Trade policy disemploys the poor and enriches the rich. Environmental policy freezes the poor and gives beautiful untouched wilderness parks to the rich. Immigration policy disemploys the poor and provides servants for the rich. Education policy shuts out the low-skilled poor and prepares the high-IQ types for jobs that Orientals can do better anyway. Military policy kills the poor in other countries and enriches the rich military contractors. "Justice" empowers thugs and kills cops.

The last sentence may seem like a mismatch, but it's the key to everything else.

Pulling it all together:

Poor people need a FIRM UNCONFUSED CULTURE more than rich people. Poor people need real churches more than the rich. Poor people need and want INDUSTRIAL JOBS, not welfare. They need TRAINING FOR INDUSTRIAL JOBS, not abstract education. Poor people need hardass law enforcement BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE PRIVATE SECURITY FORCES.

Every aspect of the Total-War monopoly is explicitly designed to kill the poor and enrich the rich.

Who's the enemy? Everyone but Goldman.
  ¶ 8:47 AM