Can the working class still change the world?

[guillaumeb]

2. Potential is there, but like many explosives, a fuse is needed to ignite it.

The 1% may be greedy, unscrupulous, and undemocratic in instinct and action, but they are not stupid. They were caught unaware by the protests and social movements of the 1960s but they recovered quickly. They are used to controlling, and once they figured out the proper methods they implemented their plans.

The 1% knows that whoever controls the narrative controls the argument. In any debate, the person who can best frame the issues will generally control the debate. The GOP may be terrible at actually governing for the benefit of most, but they know how to frame their ideas as acceptable to people.

The success at framing an estate tax that affects only the richest 1/10th of 1% as a "death tax", with the implication that every American family will be affected by it, is only one example.

Framing massive, structural income inequality as a natural and inevitable consequence of American life is another.

Starting in the 1960s, the GOP founded and funded many think tanks to present so-called objective analysis of issues that just happened to support what was most beneficial to the rich. How many people know that the Cato Institute actually started out as the Koch Institute?

The 99% does not have the money, but, at least for now, we have the votes. If we do not vote, the minority who do will continue to have a disproportionate influence on politics.

That said, HOW do we motivate people?