Reply #39: Plenty of "uneducated serfs" rebelled against the elite in the late 1800s

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and first third of 1900s. The difference is they had unions with leaders who put their lives on the line to organize them in numbers that made a difference.

The democratic party abandoned the low income and poor thirty plus years ago in favor of constant pandering to the middle class and unions are going the way of the dinosaur.
Public education is being ripped apart in favor of corp controlled education, still on our dime of course, by both parties.

The billionaires behind the teabaggers saw an opportunity and exploited it. The democrats facilitated the rise of the clueless by their mushy, stand for nothing, center right policies. The unions, what's left of them, are too busy cozying up to political power in order to cut their losses to understand they must organize an opposition to both corp. parties.