People will do something about it when the prospect of being murdered by armed thugs seems like a better deal than their day to day lives (i.e. going to work or whatever).
The sad part is, it doesn't have to get to that point, if people start doing something about it. And it doesn't even have to be much at this point in time...
Like what? Call your congressman? Write a letter? Vote? If these things could effect anything, they'd be banned.
Best thing to do is to withdraw from the system to every extent that's possible. The enslaving debt based financial system requires ever more debt, so if people stop creating more debt(currency) then the financial system will collapse. Stop being good consumers. Stop borrowing and living beyond your means. Stop using electronic credit dollars and use physical dollars. Keep your currency away from banks.
So, we agree up to a point, right? You're already providing a few things that people can do, starting immediately: "Stop being good consumers. Stop borrowing and living beyond your means. Stop using electronic credit dollars and use physical dollars. Keep your currency away from banks". I would say however that credit unions would perhaps be a good replacement for banks at this time; no need to keep your money under the mattress.
But I disagree that the rest is fundamentally ineffective; it tends to take a lot of organizing to get it to work, probably more than most people are willing to (and given the situation of a lot of people, even able to) put up with, but it's possible. There's only so much influence big money has on government, and only so much the mainstream media is able to brainwash.
So, take for example what the guys from The Young Turks are trying to do: they created Wolf PAK (
http://www.wolf-pac.com/) with the idea of passing an amendment to the constitution to get money out of politics. I think this is the most recent update from them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfIShjcA9w. Why not give it a go?
Is that the insatiable optimism of youth I detect?
I agree that community credit unions are marginally better options than large corporate banks, but NCUA deposit insurance is every bit the fraud that FDIC is. Storing your wealth in these institutions just limits your access to it. None of them pay anywhere near the rate of inflation in interest payments and ALL of them employ fractional reserve lending(counterfeiting) to increase the "money" supply. I suggest you store the bulk of your wealth in something NOT denominated in fiat. Bitcoin and/or precious metals spring immediately to mind. The portion you do keep in fiat for convenience should be stored in a safe...preferably hidden and defended by Pb.
Any real "movements" that gain any political traction are immediately assailed by the government's propaganda machine(MSM) and/or co-opted by the single political party masquerading as two parties that dominates US politics. I'm sorry, I wish there was hope as well, but there is no hope of real change unless and until the system is shaken to it's foundation. The most likely way I see that happening is via economic collapse, which is why I'm doing my small part to push us in that direction.