Some people don't realize that the country club set doesn't have the votes to elect someone on their own. Yes they need the people who must work for a living.
Now that compact has been broken. The rich have become too greedy, corrupt and selfish and they have thrown away their duties to the middle class. The middle class has to decide what to do before they become the poor. Societies go through these sorts of cycles.... boom and bust. People take things to far, they push the envelope and a correction always occurs. That correction may simply be the rise of midde class politics (most middle classers have just been fixated on sports and have been sheep) or a tidal wave of change that will end up with a socialist America... revolution. Revolutions occure for a reason. Look at history. When the elite abuses their power and pushes the intelligentsia to far... soemthing happens. It isn't the poor that forces change. It's the intelligent poor/formally middle class. Abuse them at your own risk.