I admire your optimism that things are not nearly as grim as they were some years ago. Yes, there may be more people awake but the authoritarian crackdown is in full swing and with the aid of ever more intrusive surveillance technology the revolution may be short-lived.
True enough, the tyrants have let their toys out of the box for all to see and they are the instruments of terror. The most effective use of the whip was its blandishment to instill fear and obedience, whip one too many slaves, or the wrong one, and the tide quickly turned. What must be done to free humanity must be done soon or technology will soon be able the carry out the targeted and surgical extermination of all resistance, virtually simultaneously and instantaneously, at the push of a button.
We need to get real, and then it will change.
Peaceful war is essential.
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/beating-the-psychology-of-irrelevance-guerilla-wars-part-3
It'll never happen. People seem to be getting dumber by the day, medicated, fluoridated and clamouring for their safe spaces lest anyone call them by the incorrect pronoun.