Great and accurate assessment.
Ever since the illegal annexation of Hawaii, by the US empire in 1898, the "so-called elected" US puppet government has always been dominated by an oligarchic dictatorship. When the White racist Republicans were in-charge from 1898 to 1959, the White dominated Big-Five were the ultrawealthy than ran the show. Since 1959, when the non-White led Democrats assumed political control, the Construction/Developer tycoons and outsider tourism corporations became the new ultrawealthy oligarchs that currently call the shots today.
Suffice-to-say, those living in Hawaii are viewed, by the ultrawealthy, as being nothing but modern day serfs and wage-slaves to support their industries. The high cost-of-living is inconsequential, as the ultrawealthy knows that every local can and has been replaced with an ongoing influx, of new immigrants, to the Hawaiian Islands.
Aboriginal Hawaiians know that this status of affairs will never change, as it does not matter which political cheek, of the same Power Okole, is in-charge. Hence, it is this reality above that people living in Hawaii should understand, as one of the many reasons, why aboriginal Hawaiians want the de-occupation of Hawaii, by the US empire.