Reply #228: "limited by their lack of numbers and lack of unifying self-definition" [View All]

[PavePusher]

Note that this state of affairs is a precoursor to revolution. Revolutions do not spring forth overnight, fully formed and coherent. Look at how long it took for the American Revolution to become an actual shooting war, and what percentage of the population was involved in the various factions. Also note that that was in an era of much slower communications.

This is a movement that has been building slowly for at least 15-20 years, as people get more and more disgusted with both of the main political parties. Only recently has it accelerated sufficiently to become a concern to the major power blocks, as the kernel of truth behind "Here's the new Boss, same as the old Boss", is shown to be more and more frequently true. I view this movement as an asymptotic curve on which we are approaching the mid-point of the bend. Whether we continue to accelerate, or flatten the curve, is up to individual free will, not mathematics, so the comparison is not exact, but it will serve for the moment.