I think you’re on to something.

We know the deck is stacked. The working class and the diluted middle class are always going to lose. The majority working class is too exhausted by the time they get home to do more than prepare a meal, maybe knock out a few chores and errands, and then fall exhausted into bed as they ready themselves for their second or third job. The more successful members of the more well-heeled segment of the middle class have no motivation beyond an occasional weekend ‘protest’ event — if that — before Monday and normalcy resumes. Normalcy for them involves where to buy their second home, protecting their 401Ks and investments, and planning their next vacation (the third this year); they are not the least bit interested in revolution, despite their trippy trips to Burning Man.

But one thing that the working and some of the middle classes have in common is what you are so brilliantly stitching together. It is something that supersedes economic inequality and crosses class lines and social barriers. It is, in all its various forms, some kind of belief and sense of sacred duty. Americans are born and bred in generations of this holy container. Surely in this we can find common ground. All that’s really needed, in a sense, are a very focused set of unifying rallying principles, points that stimulate passion, points that have bite, points that are undeniably true- even when they are denied- and points that have an holy edge to the ‘truthiness’ of their unifying barbs.