The status quo is terrified of the REAL popular movements...because the real popular movements wants to end the petro-plutocracy. The real popular movements know that GREED IS BAD and that our system and its leaders are speeding us all to ecocide.
We know that they aren't smart or powerful; they are literally the stupidest people in all of history—enthusiastically destroying themselves and their own children—along with the rest of us. And their "power" is 100% dependent on OUR cooperation and, indeed, obedience to them.
As the climate collapses, their support will inevitably disappear. Anyone should be able to see that coming. But they can't.
Let's take control and save the Earth, and our children, shall we? Let's remove the billionaire doofuses and their ridiculous economic/political systems. Oh, and end oil.