Unfortunately, the powers that be learned from the Civil Rights movement and have spent the decades since defanging any potential power the populace could use against them.

Destroy education. Saddle people with extreme debt. Remove any form of community support and organizational structure. They’ve had decades of practice. Hell, you could say it started in the Cold War with the attacks on unions and add in companies divesting the cost of retirement onto the employees and their stock portfolios that reinvest their wages right back into the company.