Are we just living bad theater?

I watched the movie, hunger games, yesterday.  I had a hard time reading the book, and never finished it.  I suppose my age makes teenage angst seem silly.  The movie eliminated some of that by being visual rather than melodramatic.  They did a decent job, with actors that seemed like ordinary people and costuming among the capital-dwellers that was good at pointing out the decadence of the ruling class versus the hopelessness of those that had dared to consider not serving them.
It reminded me of an extreme version of the 1% elite that own the world versus the 99% that feel they have no options but to follow the rules and hope for mercy.
I live in a state in which the "havenots" constantly support the rights of the "haves".  They never notice that they have almost no chance of becoming one of them, but rather are so fearful of the "haves" not providing jobs, and whatever else it is that they provide (this is usually where I get lost? what else do they provide, anyway?  they pay lower taxes than I do, get perks from all over the place, and why, because the "almost haves" want their crumbs.  So why are so many people in our state living below the poverty level and worried that they will tax that 1% at the same rate as everyone else?  Because?  Someone please explain how so many people can believe so much garbage just because they are told it is right, it is American, it is the only thing standing between them and communism.  Amazingly, receiving state moneys doesn't help them realize that  is ridiculous.  I heard a man with fully paid health insurance go off on a rant because with Obamacare he was going to have a tax increase and not be able to get in and see a doctor.  I have heard people panicking because all the doctors are going to leave the profession.  Where does this come from?  Will the doctors leave--most of them will then qualify for the same minimum wage jobs that everyone else is seeking, Europe and Canada has not seen Doctors leave medicine.  Will the man I work with be taxed for no insurance?----he has insurance,  will he not be able to see a doctor--he hasn't been to the doctor in three years, having insurance doesn't make you sick, but if you are sick, it would be nice to be able to go somewhere besides the ER.
Why all the panic?  Because it is what most of us do--we react--usually to what some manipulative jerk puts out there for us to react to.
If you have not seen the hunger games, consider it, but in light of our own political situations.  Watch the capital-dwellers egg on the tributes to acts of demoralized cruelty, watch them manipulate those that are trying to be better by throwing in problems that are not acts of nature--why, because of there personal gambling profits and the joy of winning.  And note the costuming of the ruling class--a people that have nothing better to do than dye their hair to match their dress and shave their beards into ornate decorations.  A people that feel good sharing feast levels of food to the people that will be dying for their enjoyment and seeing that as a kindness. Its extreme.  But having seen our own rich folks names in the society pages for donating 200$ worth of turkeys to thanksgiving at the mission, then spending that per plate on their family meal, I'm not sure it is that far off..