I get what you're saying but saying "both sides are the same" is just sort of lazy/sloppy analysis.

A more accurate approximation is far older, something like: "we're seeing 1/3 of the country attempt to kill another 1/3 of the country while another 1/3 watches."

And you're right this is due to scapegoating by the wealthy but if a third of the country didn't want to murder another third of the country then the wealthy would not find it nearly as easy to divide us.

Just destroying their wealth wont fix anything at this point. You also have to destroy a media system they spent about 70 years and two generations building or we will simply find ourselves in the same spot very shortly

Neither side is right. The whole system is fucked up. It's just a 2 party system, how is any party going to represent a large part of society? The Dems are right wing, the Reps are alt right. The system is fucked up. But the Reps try to make everything even more fucked up the most, as they want life for themselves to be better at the cost of the lives of others. While being too dumb to understand that when the largest part of your society lives in poverty without education and health care, the entire society will collapse and is going to suffer from the massive grave they just helped digging. Including their own selfish rich ass.

One is glued to FOX and the other to CNN

One definitely is glued to FOX, the other is more scattered across news sources, as the Reps generally are rather dumb shortsighted people and the rest of the population who doesn't vote Reps range from dumb CNN glued people to intelligent people who know better but have no other option than the Dems, just not to have to vote for Reps.