CS: “He concluded that the answer is that Hashem wants moshiach and Geula to go from being just something that the Nossi cares about to something the Am, every regular man woman and child care about. So it’s up to us…”
But if “even the buttons have been polished”, i.e. absolutely everything has been done, then “the Am” caring about it is included and has already been fulfilled. On the other hand, if it’s necessary that “every regular man woman and child care about” Mashiach coming, and that is not yet the case, then the buttons haven’t been polished.
You can’t have it both ways unless either Hashem changed the rules in the middle of the game, or, and I believe this is what all of us non-lubavichers believe to be the case when it comes to these types of statements, you believe in doublespeak.