America is similar to Brazil and Mexico, but it's a third-world country politically with mostly soft, misguided, uneducated voters who don't realize how badly they're mistreated unable or unwilling to take effective corrective actions to address the root causes. Jan 9 riots, conspiracy theories, political complaints about one party or another, bikeshedding, and flashpoint issues absorb and express this discontent ineffectively. Unfortunately, economic inequality cannot be reformed from within (see also: John McCain) when the political operating system is absurdly polluted and usurped by billionaires intent on maintaining the status quo feudal lobbying system that anoints celebrities to high office with media buys in exchange for access and influence. Nonviolent, massive, sustained pressure is the only way to force out the corrupt, bribed officials and attain revolutionary campaign finance reform.