There's a third possibility: collective action. It's easy to forget this, because the powers that be have been working hard for many decades to denigrate it.

Collective action needs to come from somewhere. In a nation of destroyed extended family, primary family, racial or national identity, with no religion, workers unions, or any other sense of community, where everyone is a snowflake individual, it's pretty impossible that a group of people will ever form a collective capable of doing any actions.

Now, think about it why we were conditioned from the ground up to forefeit any connections with other people and basically bared of forming high trust communities.