See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/convoy-protesters-police-tactical-knowledge-1.6345854

t’s pretty goddamn difficult to organize mass protests in DC when everyone who feels like you do is living dollar store hot dog to dollar store hot dog and DC is further from you than Moscow is from London.

What I learned in recent years, watching North American news, is that, in a car dependent land, you should protest with vehicles.

What’s fascinated me about the US is that they have a significant population of unhoused people, a lot of them having jobs too. And I kind of see that as their future. And they probably see that as their “worst case”, which only adds to hatred of unhoused people.

There’s an older term that is relevant: “lumpenproletariat”.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as “the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class.”[7] In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat

If the masses see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, they don’t see themselves as proletariat (working class). So you get the “rags to riches” story, but in reverse.