Either-way, I think that a more effective way to educate people is to organise “schools” and community-level discussion groups. There are resources out there for unionists and working people to organize these including a resource by Jim Stanford and his “Economics for Everyone” book and lesson plans: here. (I am sure that there are other resources, but Stanford’s is not that bad/)

Similar schools have been used to great effect in Venezuela, though they have the benefit of funding from the community and the federal government “missions”.

Anyway, if we understand the crisis as being caused by an over-accumulation of capital relative to what can be put to use profitably, then unions clearly aren’t responsible. The process is internal to the process of capitalist accumulation. But the only way to come out of the crisis on a capitalist basis will be through a destruction of capital, either through war or massive devaluation of existing fixed and circulating capital; and of course through an accompanying attack on workers, incl. unions.

But I’m not as skeptical as you when it comes to selling reasoned analysis. I think people would buy reasoned analysis, if only it were available! Especially nowadays with the crisis, working people are hungry for ideas. Unfortunately, capitalist pull the strings of the mainstream media! This is one of the purposes behind building “Fightback”.