Politician's Handbook from as recent as 7/9/2022. May need an update.
Step One - Underfund education and close down libraries.
Step Two - Raise a generation of 30 something dickheads who can't form a single cohesive sentence without getting a migraine. Integrate them into the communities with the Breakfast At Tiffany's song loving twats from the 90s, and that generation who haven't had to work hard to get ahead in life - we all know the one I mean.
Step Three - Take incredibly complicated socioeconomic issues and water them down into easily digestible soundbites (agenda riding bullshit, preferably) that the people in Step Two have a 50% of understanding without getting a migraine.
Step Four - Have all of your mates in the media repeat these soundbites and turn them into fact, further emboldening Mr and Mrs Audi-On-Lease-New-Build-Forty-Year-Mortgage into believing that the shite they utter, without engaging their brain for even a split second, is definitely the real reason why their lives are fecked. Because it couldn't possibly be for reasons that are complicated and diverse.
Step Five - If the above Steps fail; stir up a media frenzy with some dead cat news or poison the Queen in her sleep.