Um ... The US has always been an oligarchy, folk
It's been two-steps-forward-one-step-back here from the very beginning
For many decades, states could limit the vote to property owners: that didn't change overnight. The Constitution didn't really promise citizenship rights to large numbers of people until the Civil War amendments passed. Until the early twentieth century, the hacks in the state legiaslatures elected US Senators, and women couldn't vote. Native Americans weren't considered citizens until 1924. If you were too poor to pay a "poll tax," the oligarchs could keep you from voting -- until the Constitution was amended in 1964. The Fifteenth Amendment was only there on paper for almost a hundred years before it was finally honored in the South, as a result of the civil rights struggle. During the Vietnam war and prior wars, people were drafted and sent to fight while they were still too young to vote
Not one of these changes would have occurred without organized movements for change
It's the same story for the eight hour day, or the forty hour week, or overtime pay; and the same for ending child labor; and the same for having any worker health and safety rules
Decide what change you want, and go stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other people to work for that change. Nobody's just going to hand us what we want. You have to organize for it
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That was so cute!
for change.. Thank you! 
