The situation is an unfortunate recursive loop. Fear begets more fear, not less. The hysteria marches on because no one can argue for anything other than what they're doing. The answer to their rhetorical question "won't somebody think of the children?" drums out any resistance at all. As the pressure increases, the inability to reverse the trend diminishes. Until something snaps. It would have to be something pretty significant. The 2008 GFC failed to stem the tide, disproving the notion that people would stop worrying about paedophiles when they had something 'realer' to worry about. Trump is walking proof that there are a lot of upset and fed up citizens, yet the hysteria still continues. I think it would take bloodshed. And it won't come from us. We're too diffuse, too small a minority (a minority of a minority), too normal to start such a fight. I think it will happen incidentally, someday, as history has proven itself capable. Then, as the dust settles, perhaps something will land in a more favourable (to us) place. Otherwise, the gravity has continued to rise exponentially, pressing down. To think that something would simply stand up at this point, in this environment, is unlikely. tAD |