They ignore the people and use brutality to control the backlash.
These are desperate times for the power brokers. Wall Street has run out of natural resources to exploit as Earth heats and tragedy strikes costing lives and billions of damage to property.
While everyone cries "I am the real Reagan," no one is or can be. The future to domestic energy the Republicans would like to pursue as 'the easy and immediate fix for political victory' can't be obtained by deregulation anymore. The petroleum industry is reaching into the depths of despair to survive, drilling to hideous depths offshore, refining sand for oil and promoting a pipeline without customers.
The people of the 99% know what the future looks like and they are incensed to the 'propaganda crowd' for their inability to reach beyond their own limitations in governing due to their big money alliances. The 99 percent is more correct than they ever have been and oddly enough it is where the brain trust of the future lives.
AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF AMERICANS CAN'T BE WRONG !!!!!!