Unfortunately, "the people" will never "wake up", at least not as a collective. The Washington sewer will not be cleansed by a spiritual or political revolution, but by economics. Somewhere down the line their evil system will be taken off life support because it will have exhausted all its artificial methods of survival.
That will be a scary day, but also a joyous one!
RE: Tearing Down Statues: How Everything Could and Is Going Wrong in the US Empire... And How To Fix It