Dunno. Revolutions are complex things. It certainly favors the current regime for the rabble to believe that “resistance is futile.” For me it wouldn’t matter if it was, because duty trumps utility. But for most people the strategy is effective, and that is why it is being used. One of the more oddball theories, for example, about Snowden and the all-seeing eye of the NSA is it was necessary to cool off all the leakers and whistleblowers, who were actually beginning to really hurt the junta. Now everybody is scared, and that’s how they want it to be. Because truth be told, if we all acted in unison, without fear, and without concern for our individual outcomes, we could pull the left out of power in short order and they know it. They are all psyops, smoke and mirrors. They need us to believe there is no point to action. We have everything we need to succeed, except for the will to win.
That is what worries me...
So why is the left so gung ho to support Manning and Snowden? Doesn’t make sense with your idea that exposure could pull the left out of power.