What the Ruling Class Fears- In a Word

[Orwellian_Ghost]

We are trained against solidarity our whole lives

I mean, maybe not in our families or certain personal influences, but on a societal/cultural level we are never taught that one person's suffering belongs to everyone, and that we are all responsible for alleviating anyone's suffering in our society.

Even further, we are taught that other struggling people are our competition, our enemy. It is near impossible to overcome that.

So we have a tendency to compartmentalize our political picture, as if all of these 'issues' are separate - war, immigrants' rights, environment, corporate welfare, unemployment, globalism, outsourcing, healthcare... But in reality, these are all part of the same overarching problem. The biggest fear of the ruling class is that all the people will figure that out and turn against their true enemy.

They are doing a damn good job, I must say. Divide and conquer, blame the victim, dichotomies ad infinitum...

For any movement to become successful we need to learn how to overcome those obstacles, we need to learn why/how we are alienating potential allies. But it doesn't help that so much activism is party-oriented, because that, in and of itself, alienates half the population from the get-go.

I think it is all or nothing right now, and 'nothing' is winning...How do we harness the 'all'?