Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.

You're totally right. It's wrong to call the individuals who belong to the class of people who need to work together in the thousands or millions to effect change via coordinated collective action "powerless", or to imply that the handful of individuals with enough sway that they've managed to effectively prevent that are somehow "powerful".

The right thing to do is definitely to find a place where someone has griped that the experience being one of those temporarily disenfranchised oligarchs is kinda shit and remind them that since their millions of equally powerful cohort haven't joined arms against the handful of not-more-powerful people who oppose them that they, personally, are guilty of a myriad sins that contributed directly to all of their misery so they should just shut their imperialist fucking faces and fix everything in their lives and country.

Because you know, it's your responsibility to be the morality police of people you've never met, and to proselytize your specific beliefs about the way Americans can unfuck themselves.