how are more people not radicalized about the state of our collapsing world?

Fun story: I’ve worked all over the country training field crews and used to travel to every population center in the PNW every month, doing landscaping in drainage areas. I went to Detroit to spend a week training (two crews lost their leaders and needed to combine). So I go to a Stihl dealership with the two guys and have fun spending company money on top-of-the-line string trimmers and blowers. We were one of those companies that spared no expense on equipment but tried to pay our field guys $12 an hour and ask them to share hotel rooms.  The guys behind the counter say something along the lines of “you live out in the northwest, huh? Is it as bad out there as I hear? I see on the news Portland is on fire 24/7, you have those Black Lives Matter protesters rioting, it’s like a third world country right?” And here’s where I had my epiphany. I was in *Detroit* of all places, and the news was telling them that my home was a hellscape and the news was telling me that their home was a hellscape. Turns out, both are pretty fuckin normal.  I’ve been mugged in DC and stalked in New Orleans, had a car broken into in Portland, gun flashed in Pike Place after hours, spent the night in Grand Central Station in NYC because I missed the last train out. That’s all to say I’ve taken some risks and been drunk in public in some unsafe spaces.  Seattle is bad for property crime and altogether pretty low on violent crime. It has a growing homeless population, in part because real estate interests own the state and local government, it has the biggest inequality in the world (home to two of the five richest people on planet earth) and in part because climate and economic factors are causing coastal migration. We aren’t going to solve these problems. They’re going to get worse and they might not get better. But we can start seeing our lowest caste of American society as humans and our highest caste as modern day plantation owners, and revolutionize from there.  We need shared working farms, because The Grapes of Wrath is still writing itself. We need the CCC again, because the Great Depression is back. We need to reverse corporate capture of our regulators, because The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was peak labor rights in this country. And The People’s History of the United States and Slavery by Another Name and Silent Spring are coming to a book burning near you.