I think there is still hope when a person such as Farruggio from a working class background really understands some of the glaring, fundamental realities of political life in the US.
...we have an American Empire that has, over the period of decades, transformed much of our populace into lemmings.
They achieved this with bombarding us, through the corporate-run media, with misinformation, disinformation and outright lies.
The empire played the fear card over and over: first it was fear of the Commies, then fear of the Islamic terrorists, fear of illegal aliens from south of the border to rape our wives and daughters and then take over our busboy and dishwasher careers; fear of gays corrupting our children, fear of a Marxist/Socialist government, and of course, for we white folks, the fear of the blacks taking over our neighborhoods.