When it comes to revolutions and uprisings, there is a belief that those that are the most oppressed are going to lead some sort of proletariat or lower-income revolution, but history tells us that revolutions are most often led by either a fight of the elites, a military coup, or by those who have historically had a voice but have become essentially disenfranchised and thus have a very good reason to lead an uprising so as to obtain what they believe that they have already fairly earned but have unfairly lost.
When it comes to America, we read at Investopedia.com that “The share of income captured by the middle class fell from 62% in 1970 to 43% in 2022,” which is a staggering drop, in which, quite frankly the middle-class of America has basically ceded their income, their wealth, and their monies to the elites of America, so that those that are at the very top have never been richer, and that those that are the heart and soul of America are ever feeling more pressure to maintain their status as the weight of oppressive taxation, personal debt, inflation, and employment insecurity have placed more and more weight upon their sore and aching shoulders.
So too, the middle-class in absence of their voice being substantially heard and thus with their backs against the wall, are going to find that because their vote essentially doesn’t matter because nothing changes for the good of that middle-class that they are going to find that to get a fair slice of the American pie that they are going to be compelled to take back from the elites and the superrich what is rightfully theirs, and to do so, they will have to revolt against the current order so as to get back for them no more and no less than what they rightfully deserve for their labor.
After all, when we reflect on where power is, it has to be acknowledged that without a vibrant middle-class, that this country would ultimately devolve into not only a complete police state but would lose any real semblance of its competitiveness and fairness because the superrich are disinclined to do anything that will necessitate that they personally sacrifice their own blood, sweat, and tears. Furthermore, the elites of this nation don’t represent enough people to get done what needs to get done, because in actuality they need the middle-class to do that for them, and hence for their own continuation those elites are going to have to start paying their own fair progressive share of taxation, which also includes those corporations that have skirted around what they really should and ought to pay, or else there will surely come a changing of the guard, because the middle-class will not go quietly into the night, since they are the very ones that have done the work which has made America to be the success that it has become.
An America without a vibrant and healthy middle-class simply isn’t America, and to get back to where it ought to be, necessitates that the elites, for their own survival, if nothing else, will recognize that without a happy and satisfied middle-class, that truth be told, the times surely will be changing.