You sound like someone who hasn't read much on the subject and rather listened to what the populists have been saying.
Get in for a surprise: The popuists LIED to you. That's the job of pied pipers like Geerd Wilders and the likes. They make you think they have a better way because they LIE to you.
You probably renounce reality because it is too much biased in a way that contradicts your own opinion, right?
I know people like you: They say you cannot trust the media and that we are all victims of manipulation. Why? Because what they say doesn't fit into their view of the world. They think they are right, so all others must be wrong. The logic of the ignorant. And if there is sense and logic behind what others say, it's just them manipulating people. It really is a sick way to look at the world, with us living in the best times ever for any human being.
But it's like what I've been saying all along: People aren't made for living in satisfaction. They need problems. And if they don't get any, they come up with problems on their own.