What can be done right now to save the middle class?

Clearly the biggest casualty in recent history from an economic standpoint is the middle class. The failed policies of Reaganomics (or as I call it "socialism for the rich") continue to demonstrate the true intentions of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country. forget when Noam Chomsky coined the term "class warfare", but I can imagine no more apt a term for the direct assault on reasonable wealth distribution.

I'll admit that the first place I end up turning to when seeking a solution to any problem is education. Ignorance often can create a state of compliance, and compliance is something that benefits those that selfishly seek to control. Originally, mass education was intended to turn independent farmers into passive automatons of production, serving without question. The irony, though, is that it put in place the infrastructure to spread information to those wanting to learn very efficiently. If one were able to convince several higher ranking members of the government in charge of education that an ideal was worth teaching, it's possible that idea could trickle down (to use the enemy's own phrase) to many, many members of the coming generations.

The second route is labor. While labor doesn't have the same strength it might have in places like Europe, labor still has massive influence in the US, and it's in labor's best interest to maintain and protect the middle class. The upper class doesn't need to unionize, they already have. The lower class and middle class need organization in order to defend against the upper class. Why this war on the middle class has seemingly gone unnoticed in many unions is puzzling. Could some of the leadership be compromised? Or could it simply be that their vision is often simply too limited to what's immediately in front of them instead of the bigger picture?

What other fronts could this war be fought on? What other battles can there be to restore reasonable wealth distribution? .