but it will require people to retool their thinking.

It's called demonstrations and civil disobediance. Why do you think that the elites in other countries are not nearly as rapacious as the US elites? Because they're afraid of the people, and the people remind them of that well-founded fear from time to time.

That, btw, means taking to the streets, and doing so in a way that's not organised and funded by billionaires... which takes the tea party off the agenda.