I think at this point we need ten thousand leaders. We need to articulate to our family, friends and neighbors just what is in store if they do nothing - and basic steps that learn from the past mistakes of the left AND the right. And to develop basic policy concepts to stabilize the private-sector middle class, such as shrinking government jobs, encouraging entreprenuership while still providing needed regulation for the financial masters of the universe that helped dig this hole we are currently in - while avoiding pie-in-the-sky platitudes - that it will take a lot of hard work to reverse the current course of events.
A LOT of people sense what is going on but don't follow politics and economics enough to start to grasp the next steps. And it HAS to focus on preserving the middle class - a coalition of conservatives and Blue Dog dems and small-'l' libertarians, IMO, can find enough common ground over middle-class issues to form the critical mass for an electoral majority.
Once the movement gets started, it will attract those with political skills and ambitions, as all grassroots movements do. The trick will be to steer them, and not let them hijack us.
Squarely on target.
The history of socialism clearly reveals that:
1. The super-rich and powerful will remain super-rich and powerful...by essentially forming a partnership with the regime.
2. However, the merely rich are unable to defend themselves...and get wiped out.
3. The middle class disappears. There is a reason why Marxist teaching calls for the elimination of the bourgeoisie.
4. The lower class gets a lot of new neighbors-- but little else.