Thank you Steve - I'm new here so don't know what is possible to share but a youtube video I stumbled across yesterday gives me a glimmer of hope as it emerges from a country whose relatively modern history, was one of almost total adherence to the diktats of an authoritarian Nazi state. Perhaps due to having been there & lessons learnt due to that, ordinary people were out in huge numbers on the streets the other day in ( if I counted the list correctly ) 218 towns & cities - the caveat is of course that I only have the vids word for it.

Perhaps it's all like a dam, whereby enough cracks will result in an eventual flood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omSSxZzBiVY&list=LL&index=8