It seems like a clear enough statement. It's really not difficult to understand the concept that a group of people working together towards the same objective wield a greater force than if they tried to accomplish the identical objective individually and uncoordinated. So, why can't common American workers understand this?

If the political system is dependent upon the vote—and it is, and if there are so many more common Americans than privileged Americans—and there are, and if common working Americans still enjoy the privilege of the vote—and they do, why don't commoners unite to change the American system to one more receptive to their needs and wants?

Why continue to allow people to govern who restrict the value of commoner lives to a handful of dollars per hour while their lives are sometimes valued at hundreds of dollars per minute? Do they work harder than commoners? Do they put in more hours per day on the job? Do they contribute more to society than commoners do? Are they truly superior people deserving of a richer life-style, for if so, commoners must be truly inferior?

I'll answer the last question for you, if you don't mind. In a very real sense common working-class Americans are inferior to the Americans who cheat them and take advantage of them. They are too afraid of life, too dependent upon others to do the social chores they should do, too trusting of people they shouldn't trust, and often less educated and less knowledgeable of essential truths of life.

Without these truths they cannot see the whole truth. And because the whole truth is the only truth, their ignorance, and their lack of curiosity about the whole truth makes it easy for privileged Americans to deceive and conquer commoners.

"Divide and Conquer" is an ancient military strategy. Create distrust, anger, hatred, or doubt within the ranks of your enemy and conquest will become easier. Privileged Americans have been utilizing this strategy for more than two hundred years to keep common working Americans from marshalling the greater force. They play upon human fears and prejudices and turn white commoners against black commoners; black commoners against Jewish commoners; Jewish commoners against Christian commoners; Christian commoners against Muslim commoners; Latino commoners against Asian commoners; young commoners against older commoners; working commoners against retired commoners; male commoners against female commoners; uneducated commoners against educated commoners, and any group possible against any other group possible.

An additional part of their strategy is to prevent all of these common Americans from discovering the whole truth, or to find the time to think about the whole truth. Feed them trivial information. Split their votes among an infinite number of causes. Keep them busy with unimportant, self-indulgent activities. Provide entertainment twenty-four hours a day. Make history books boring so there can be no accidental discovery of the depths and degradation resulting from class oppression.

Don't let American commoners understand the greatest enemy of the working peopleof all societies past and present—is their own ruling class, not foreign powers.

Don't let working Americans of today even begin to think that their social problems may be the consequences of economic class conflict and that their true enemy—rich powerful Americans who control the American System—have been waging an undeclared war against them since the writing of the constitution.

Keep working Americans from understanding that the two-party political system is a device that prevents their unity and weakens their political strength. Keep knowledge from them the two-party system evolved, because colonial commoners, who were fearful of the way privileged citizens of their time were abusing the new constitutional political system, asked Thomas Jefferson to lead them in a new party and drive the privileged Federalists from office.

Jefferson knew the Constitution of the United States had been created by privileged people to benefit privileged people. He knew the constitution had not been a product of individual citizens seeking a better way to secure liberty and justice, but a document created by power groups—Establishments within each state—seeking to suppress the political demands and wealth-making opportunities of their common citizens.

The Republican party of today was birthed more than 150 years ago. It evolved out of the Whig party that preceded it—that evolved out of Alexander Hamilton's original Federalist party.

The Democratic party, presumably represents the republic's common working citizens. It's laurels, however, rest upon the accomplishments of the New Deal president of more than 50 years ago rather than anything since accomplished.

This brings up the question: why do most intelligent American commoners of today still restrict their votes to candidates put forth by the Republican and Democratic parties knowing the Republican party enthusiastically and unequivocally represents the interests of wealth, and the Democratic party caters to the interests of wealth?

Why are Americans limited to rich political candidates, or to people who have access—and obligations—to wealth? If this is a democracy, why have we witnessed the emergence of political family dynasties? In 1998, the New York Times Almanac listed almost 70 million families in the republic. So why are so few family names popping up again and again in important political contests? Is the republic so impoverished of educated, concerned citizens that it must rely on so few to administer government?

Why can't working commoners recognize, once and for all time, that the American System is biased against them? Why don't Americans, once and for all time, discard their representative democracy and install a Direct Democracy—a true democracy—one that will attend to all of society's needs and make efforts to curtail the excess accumulation of wealth and the abuse of power. Why don't Americans unite to change their republic for the better?