People who are assuming people aren't happy with the status quo, that people aren't willing to give up their comfortable lives, those who think that people aren't interested in revolution, have got it all wrong.
The fact is, a shit load of people have nothing but bad things to say about their job, their mortgage, their crap paycheck, the rising cost of living, outstanding taxes mainly for military funding, the fact that banks get a free ride as opposed to other enterprises, and the fact that we have a growing epidemic of homelessness, poverty, and unemployment. The conditions for desiring change have been here for ever, there is simply not a concrete vehicle of struggle for workers and exploited persons to latch on to. For a long time the US left has been very confined to well, leftists, and not the working population. What is needed is a coherent body of organization, that actually works to link up different struggles across the country and be manageable and flexible enough to be effective at adopting the best strategy and tactical discourse when facing new challenges in the struggle.
We need to challenge the state of cultural hegemony that currently plagues the consciousnesses of the country as a whole. To do this is not about printing more propaganda or making some internet site. Rather, to challenge cultural hegemony and to sew the essence of class struggle into the hearts and minds of working people, communist must struggle as working people and practice their methods of struggle in order to demonstrate an alternative to capitalism. Workers aren't attracted to leftist organizations in this country, for the most part that is. There exists, large areas of inactivity of any kind of leftist organization in many parts of the US. Growing up in one of these places it's plainly obvious to see what devastating consequences this must have. I've never been given a piece of propaganda in my life, nor have any organizations aside from the PSL and Answer really done anything of signifigance--that is where I live.
It takes a culture of struggle and solidarity, as well as a fighting spirit that a workers movement must possess in order to gain ground and keep it. It takes even more culture of security, ideological and political strength as well as scrutiny to make an organization large and strong enough to actually challenge capitalist rule. This is something that has been out of reach for a long time in the US. The US left has been declining since the end of Vietnam War, and has no hope of continuing in it's current state. I realize I personally do not have many actual solutions to give because I'm not one to give any in the first place--that's much larger than me. All I'm saying is we need to learn from history and use our knowledge in effective ways against the enemy. Some are making strides in this direction, but in the US we still have a left that is small, weak, for the most part archaic and dogmatic, and worst of all practically invisible. Antics like Food not Bombs or violent protesting is pretty much what the US left has had to offer of recent times, while organizations should be doing something useful.
If the working and exploited people of the US are ever going to take power, it's time to actually act as if that's the goal, and not some fantasy.