What is it you want? Until there is a common objective, nothing will happen except more elections. I think that's been a major problem, the inability to define an objective, versus a laundry list of demands.

Push the entire wreck over the cliff. As soon as posible.
We are like drug addicts, nothing will change until we hit rock fucking bottom. Knocking at deaths door. When we feel the lash of the whip on our backs, is when any resistance will develop.
How far down?
When they destroy the only union left, the police union, is when we will see our only window of opportunity. Only then will they switch sides.
IMHO

This pretty much says it all. Look at how years this crap has been going on. Far back to soon after the Declaration of Independence was signed, there have been people saying things like this. For over two centuries, people have done nothing while watching the ruling class taking more and more from us. There has to be a time when people say Enough!

Eugene Debs

these two examples.

George Carlin, just before he died speaking with Olbermann (when he was sane and not a pathetic Neoliberal dupe), talking about how to handle the RW, and presumably oligarchs and fake liberals also:

“I like moving in and really hurting them. I don’t like this ‘let’s be cute, let’s be clever.’ I like smashing them, because that’s the only way to take care of them.”

The current crop of Neoliberal MSM comedians, such as Colbert, Stewart, Trevor Noah, Fallon, etc are a shameful bunch of dupes compared to folks like Carlin, Dick Gregory, Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor.

And then there's the great Socialist author Jack London. Excerpt from "Jack London/American Rebel," by Philip Foner:

From Harvard University London went to New York where he addressed and exclusive group of extremely wealthy men and women. He was to use the incident several months later in the brilliant chapter of The Iron Heel, "The Philomaths."

"You have been entrusted with the world; you have muddled and mismanaged. You are incompetent despite all your boastings. 1 million years ago the caveman, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You, on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the caveman 1 million times – you are in incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.

Who will take it from you? We will!

And who are we? We are 7 million socialist revolutionists…

"There was a loud murmur protest and dissent," Wanhope continued, "and one or two respectable looking person's choked up, but it seemed as if they were about to have apoplexy. London walk down from the rostrum through a sea of blasted purple faces distorted with rage, but no attempt was made to detain him… it was not until he was well out of earshot that some of the stunned audience plucked up enough courage to remark that 'he ought to be in jail.'"

Jack was gleeful. He wrote back to Bamford: "Oh I have some stories to tell you when I get back about my clashes with the masters of society!"

In the middle of his prepared lecture at Yale, London interpolated a bitter comment comment on the role of American colleges and universities:

"I went to the University. I found the University, in the main, practically wholly so, clean and noble, but I did not find the university alive. I found the American university had this ideal, as phrased by a professor at a Chicago university, namely: "the passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence' - clean and noble, I grant you, but not alive enough…

And the reflection of this university ideal I find - conservatism and the unconcern of the American people for those were suffering, who are in want. And so I became interested in an attempt to arouse in the minds of our universities an interest in Socialism…We do not desire merely to make converts…If collegians cannot fight for us, we want them to fight against us. But what we do not want is that which obtains today and has obtained in the past of the university, a mere deans and unconcern and ignorance so far as socialism is concerned. Fight for us or fight against us! Raise your voices one way or the other; be alive!"

When he finished, London received a tremendous ovation from the students and was carried off the platform on the shoulders of a group of Yale men. Even some of the faculty members shared this enthusiasm. "A Professor of Yale," Dr. Irvine once remarked, "told me a few days after the lecture that it was the greatest intellectual stimulus Yale had and in many years, and he sincerely hoped that London would return and expound the same program in the same hall." The press, to say the least, did not echo these sentiments. The New Haven papers were furious that the students had been exposed to the "rantings" of a socialist and the New York papers took up the cry. The New York Times devoted a long editorial on February 1, 1906, to London's speech at Yale in which it paid Jack a left-handed compliment, commending him "for the perfect frankness with which he tells his audience what socialism is, and what it aims to accomplish."

When we speak like this, that's when the Masses, the 99%, will become galvanized. A "tremendous ovation" and "carried on the students' shoulders." It was practically so for Bernie. He proved this kind of rhetoric is deeply resounding. It's a no-brainer that people are very pissed off. But they can't put their finger on the malaise. He masterfully narrowed it down to and laser-focused on Wall St and Money In Politics.

Where are today's artists, authors and musicians speaking with this kind of spine, temerity and fearlessness?

Read Jack London's essay "What Life Means To Me." It's a moving paean to Socialism, deeply inspiring in its complete demolition of the Capitalist economic model and how it contorts human beings out of their better selves.

I agree. We need to call these bastards out in no uncertain terms. They need to be made afraid that people are waking up to their game.

But the focus must be on the ones really pulling the strings.

Of course, that may be due to my understanding of what it means to be “Left.”

A “Left” that approves of NATO bases in Germany as the staging area for waging war all over the Middle East and Central Asia – a “Left” that sells taxpayer-subsidized submarines to Israel, knowing they will be outfitted with nuclear missiles — a “Left” that bows down to Federal Reserve 2.0 in the form of the European Central Bank — a “Left” that doesn’t acknowledge the additional pressure mass immigration puts on the already-strained ability of society’s bottom 20% to survive — is no “Left” at all.

At least in my book — YMMV.