Nothing will change until the Status Quo is obliterated. And the fastest way to end the Status Quo is to:
"Maintain the Status QuoTM"
Re·ac·tion·ar·y: "One who defends the status quo. Ultra-conservative"
There is nothing new about reactionary politics. It's been a feature of every collapsing society since the beginning of mankind.
In other words, there is no way this could all just implode in broad daylight.
Unless, the denialists only trusted those who can't be trusted.
To Rush Limbaugh & Co.: Keep up your good work.
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.