I support people marrying the person they want.

I don't want addicts giving me cancer in the workplace.

And Mary Jane is cool.

Unfortunately, minorities have also taken over the Presidency, our morals as evidenced by governmental laws and rulings regarding race, abortion, GBLTQ rights, voting, and religion. Some places are now rising up and taking the initiative for fair play and winning, as Armenia has just shown. Maybe our side favoring fair play and honest, open government is starting to come back.

Yes...I've been a bit concerned about this very issue. We have to carefully VET those we elect to get us out of this mess.

"This isn’t necessarily an uplifting message, Centola stresses. “It’s really important to be aware of how easily populations can be co-opted by people with an agenda,” he says. Russian-linked Facebook accounts bought a significant number of ads that targeted U.S. voters during the 2016 presidential election. The voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica [co-founded by Stephen Bannon] used information from millions of people on Facebook to create psychographic profiles, and then used those to target ads supporting Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Brexit “Leave” campaign. The Chinese government has been seeding groups of activists into online communities to subtly shift discussions towards national pride, and to distract from collective grievances. (“We’re now looking at times in which these activists became more active to see if they reached this 25 percent threshold,” Centola says.)

“There are already a number of people out there who are gaming group dynamics in careful ways,” says Damien Williams, a philosopher at Virginia Tech University who studies the ethical implications of technology. “If they know what target numbers they have to hit, it’s easy to see how they could take this information and create a sentiment-manipulation factory.”

“It’s a little disquieting,” Williams adds. “It would very likely yield an environment in which we have to be a lot more careful about who’s moving us and how.”

"Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Social media makes this kind of "sentiment manipulation" depressingly easy and formulaic. It explains a LOT about how voter sentiment was targeted and changed last election, where a state by state effort produces outsized results when paired with an archaic electoral college model. This is scary, but at least someone is trying to understand how it works.

25% is the key number for resistance movements.

Technically this called a paradigm shift. An in balance occurs in a system or ideology. As the inbalance causes more and more tension within its followers, the usual answers are no longer satisfactory. You begin to search for alternative answers that significantly differ from what you are used to. Eventually the tension and stress reaches an unsta in able point, and the old ideology is discarded for a new one. Paradigm shift. This process is true in all the natural sciences and the study is called Complex Systems Theory ( or popularly, Chaos Theory). A fascinating field of study.

The organized minority has great power if they choose to defy the majority.

It happens in conjunction with a generation or a generation and a half passing.

Just the title sounds like more Atlantic right wing propaganda.