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I assure you that many Americans realized that we live in plutocracy as far as ten years ago starting with Trump's first presidency. I think what many people in general are not aware of is that there is a difference between government and state, that they are separate, and the state protects class interests (aka the Epstein/pedo class). Unless of course some one in government decides to go against their interests. Which is why sudden deaths and assassinations happen at all. Congressmen in our government can absolutely try to get Bondi arrested and tried, but the state could and will try to protect her unless Trump decides otherwise or the state still finds her useful.
Lack of class analysis is really the key problem in my opinion. People just reduce politics to voting, and think that as long as they're allowed to vote then if things aren't going their way it's their fault. This whole narrative that you just have to vote harder if you don't get what you want was an incredibly insidious bit of propaganda.
There is a lack of class analysis among normal American citizens because of the work of the three branches of the U.S. government and state. The state actually works with mainstream news platforms, so they are at fault for that in particular. What you have just explained is exactly the work of both these things. However, there are a lot of academics such as Michael Parenti (who unfortunately died recently) who have talked about this extensively for many decades, and there are many left political commentary from from leftist creators online such as Kyle Kulinksi on YouTube. Many people are having the conversations, it's just whether or not the other people are willing to let go of the narrative they been fed this whole time to have us moving in the right direction at a faster rate.
Yeah it's going to be a process. The dynamic I see is that people in the mainstream are becoming disillusioned as they see their standard of living continuing to decline while also watching the elites being completely unaccountable. As they fall out of the liberal mainstream, they become open to entertaining new ideas, and that's where people on the left have to step in to help guide their understanding.
I absolutely agree with you on that. Although I see many of them are choosing to be super stubborn about it again spreading the 'vote blue no matter who' bullshit again. Already, before the primaries. I am so exhausted over it already.