How is Buckley's essay, "Why Don't We Complain?" a cause and effect essay? Is his message still relevant today?

While Buckley's piece, "Why Don't We Complain?", is a cause and effect essay, the message can be applicable for today, depending the audience.  Again, here is another author churning out literature that is singular in thought, without considering the broader readership, and submits a wholly one-sided construct.  Admittedly, while Buckley paints a vivid picture, orchestrating a masterful deluge of stories, on the surface one would be inclined to agree.  The scope to which the piece examines this cycle, pinning society to the structure known as centralized government, it is one side of the overall argument.  I find it humorous, to say the least, when readers quote such pieces to support such platforms.   It's as if people prefer to regurgitate the media than to actually read between the lines and see the hidden message, or even explore that which was not addressed.  Perhaps they are too uncomfortable with descent, or the friction of having an opposing position, that it is much easier to ride the coat-tails of a popular movement.  And, to some degree, this is another faced of the same argument, where passiveness passes off as social acceptance.  I would argue that while the majority of the audience may, or may not agree, there are people that will, or will not voice any opinion on the relevance.  For my own reasons, that I refuse to share, I would say the message is not relevant to the minority that does complain, and often.  We can measure this population by those that represent the majority--Representatives, Senators, and our President.