Yes.

You aren’t going to get meaningful progressive change by just asking for it, and certainly not by hoping for it. The powerful need to be afraid that a worse alternative awaits them before they’ll acquiesce to sharing what they have.

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur

This should tell you what absolute garbage most American administrations were for the working class.

FDR was the last president who was really afraid of Marxism at home, while Nixon was probably the last president even slightly afraid of the people.

Not initially, no. They think they’re a few Neimollers away from no one speaking for them.

I highly encourage you to listen to translations of Hitler’s rallies, because they’re the same kind of nonsense.