Seemingly so. On the one hand I'm into wishful thinking, on the other, cynical me says 'if they bother to so act at all'. implying SFA good will come out of it.

Seemingly so. On the one hand I'm into wishful thinking, on the other, cynical me says 'if they bother to so act at all'. implying SFA good will come out of it. History bears this out, take the Russian Revolution/uprising of 1905 and the authoritarian crackdown, it erupted again in 1917 and was successful that time but quickly went pear-shaped a few years later and fell back into totalitarianism. That lasted until 1991 when there was a minor reprieve. Now it's pear-shaped again—totalitarianism again reigns supreme. No wonder it's so difficult to shake off one's pessimism.