Nothing is going to change until the citizens in this country do something. All the talk in the world is not going to change things. And all the complaining isn't going to change anything.
We had our chance at election time, and the people put the same career politicians right back in. Obama just gave congress and his cabinet all pay raises, and now he just gives presidents armed guards for life, at our tax expense.
This administration is going to make it financially good for themselves, and to heck with the people in this country. Its all about what the politicians can gain and get. They are raking in the money while the citizens struggle to pay debts.
They talk about us people having to scarifice durning these hard times, yet they give to themselves anything they need. The scarifices should start with them. They need to cut their pays, and they damn sure don't need armed guards for the rest of their intire lives....nor do we need to pay them salaries after they are out of office..............where is the outraged and voice from the people.?????????
If this is what you want then don't complain.
The situation today in which blue collar labor is basically chattel, moved back and forth between public and private support systems, is not any part of my vision for the United States. The US has been poorly led since Johnson and incompetently led since Carter - no exceptions. Reagan tripled the debt, Clinton finished Reagan's idiotic deregulation of avarice, Bush invaded the wrong countries for the wrong reasons, and Obama is literally hapless.
But complaining is not my style. My style is to stump congressscum visiting district post offices and humiliate local officials in public. In a fairly upscale restaurant recently, I asked a judge when police finding illegal drugs in a vehicle with an infant in it stopped being a change in circumstance for custody consideration. The filthy incompetent scum suggested he shouldn't be questioned in public. The discussion didn't last long, he and his family left. Humiliated as they all should have been.
To answer your question, most of humanity are little better than cattle. They need care and feeding and directed by the dogs of commerce or war. Few people know what they want, let alone how to get it. Making a bad situation worse, the rules are malleable; legal contests today are more often won by money than by reason.
My theory:
Anger, hunger and pain are all that motivate individuals to act against authority.
When two of the three achieve collective critical mass at the lower end of the economic spectrum, then revolution starts from the bottom [see, France, 1780s; Somalia today].
When anger reaches critical mass among would-be oligarchs revolution starts from the top [see, American colonies, 1770s - violent; US, 1980s - nonviolent destruction of blue collar middle class].
As to results, there are no guarantees [see, Latin America since 1700s].
YMMV