Reply #5: An opportunity that they/we will pass. Over a century of brainwashing has taken its toll.

[Greyhound]

there are no more than 1% of our population that has any idea how our economy works (more accurately how it is designed to work against us), how our political process really works (ditto), or most importantly, how much power We the People have.

This is what gives the (real) ruling class nightmares, the idea that some day the American sheeple wake up one day and say, "fuck this, this is our country, not yours, we decide what is right, not you", and proceed to withdraw from the rigged game that they have imposed on us.

There is nothing that we need that we cannot make ourselves, there is nothing that can compel us to do their bidding, except our own ignorance and perceived dependence. We have all the power, they have none, if only we realized it.