https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1s7m6u0/victim_of_capitalism_sleeping_in_front_of_victims/
We could do a lot with the fact that West won the first Cold War and that's exactly when everything started to really suck for average Westerners. "We" didn't win the Cold War, we were better off when the Soviets forced the West to provide quality jobs and services for at least some significant portion of us.
It takes just as much political willpower and government involvement to make Wall St work as it does public schools and healthcare. It's about priorities. This is an important point that will likely be lost on a lot of people over 40 but the next couple generations coming up don't have the same ideological baggage, and a lot of millennials, green xers, and boomers will still echo these sentiments. It's a plurality, for sure.
What needs to be understood is the need for organization beyond a narrow "economist" organizing. in Lenin's sense. we don't just need unions or to necessarily prioritize them right off the bat, although they are crucial. we can pick other fights to meet people where they are at, especially when working with service sector workers in decentralized workplaces with small numbers of employees. "Serve the people" campaigns are powerful. I've said before the real vanguard isn't just made up of people with clearheaded class consciousness but also principles and moral conviction.
How many people with the latter 2 things end up checking out of politics for lack of an outlet? I bet for every 1 person that doesn't vote because they don't care, there is 1, maybe 2 or more, who don't vote because they are too heartbroken and disillusioned from caring too much.
Trickle down is an obvious scam, people see this and other scams left and right, now. We are ruled by pedo warlord antichrists that everyone hates but doesn't understand how to fight. We know how to fight them, and we know the West is not on a course towards social democratic compromise to forestall further disintegration and fallout. They are just throwing AI, porn, smartphones, and idpol at us and that's not going to work on everyone, and when they rely more and more on overt repressive policing it'll work on even less.
Now is the time to start doing something with someone. The bar is low. We can do this.