Iceland had a bunch of people bang pots outside their capital and forced their government to resign.
All you need is organization.
Bingo! And THAT's what we lack today. The majority is still conservative, and there a great many dissatisfied with Washington.
The problem is, when there's a "Ferguson", there is a machine in place to jump on Twitter, pound the message boards, bus in "protestors", and plaster it all on the news networks until it permeates the masses.
No better example of this exists than what happened with the Confederate battle flag last week.
Three weeks ago, nobody really cared that the flag was flying in South Carolina, or was for sale on Amazon, and Wal-Mart, and Target. But boom, in one fell-swoop, it's gone -- erased from history. Protestors came out of the woodwork, media pressure increased. The media contacted large retailers asking them if they planned to continue selling these "racist" flags.
This machine is capable of nearly anything now.
So watch your six.
interesting thought.
The tea party did the same when it first got started. We won the battle of 2010, and thought we won the war, and so we went back to sleep or our comfort zone.
Apparently things are not uncomfortable enough yet for us to wake us up.
This was also used against the Allende government in Chili. Protests are just ways of getting attention while expressing your rights as a free people to speak and assemble.