The best the laity can hope for is that these people overplay their hand in such a grotesque fashion, so as to truly show all their cards, but I don't think they're that stupid.
The Roman Catholic laity is flaccid, because being flaccid has suited him and her too.
Ease, the laity is looking for ease, in the main. That's the reason the Liturgical abuses were allowed to advance, unimpeded. The laity just saw this as a concomitant to the easing of other rules, aided and abetted by a Clergy that promulgated the abuses first, or resisted not at all, and/or was unwilling to fill the laity with some real turgor, to marshall discipline.
To the best of my knowledge, Canon Law still admonishes us to fast from meat on Friday. Again, as far as I know, that stricture has not been rescinced. Yet, not only were we not encouraged to hold to that stricture, we were basically told not to fret about it. That's just one example, I'm sure there are quite a few more, and probably of greater import.
And I shouldn't even be allowed to speak in these terms, because I abandoned ship and then returned, the worst kind of Catholic, really.
That being said, though, I still have ears to hear, and eyes to see, and anyone that doesn't see self-proclaimed homosexuals ascending the Altar, and 'assisting' the Mass, and proclaiming their right to 'hold' and distribute the Eucharist in 10 years or so, is blind to the bone-deep degradation of the past 40 years.
To be sure, there will be bouts of assertion, but they will be to no avail, we are without the power to reign in the beasts. I'm hoping that the next Pope, will be able to turn things around, but admittedly the likelihood of that occurring is not very great.
I'm just now starting to realize why a Church, such as the RCC needs a PR Firm, and why Saint Peter, and Saint Paul did not.
A very astute observation!