With income inequality rising, the middle class increasingly squeezed and more of us than ever feeling the pinch, why hasn’t the American public risen up to demand reform? It’s happened before, as in the Progressive Era, during the New Deal and the Great Society, so why not now?

In his latest “Regulators” vlog, University of California Economics professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the three reasons keeping Americans from rising up in open rebellion to demand change.