Totally agree @ancientmystique and sorry for the delayed reply. There's a lot of weight behind movements like this and I fear that the uninformed, heaving, drooling masses will just "go with the flow" like the boiling frog such that by the time things get really bad there will be no momentum to reverse the trend.
It's infuriating to have behaviour dictated in increasingly brazen and overreaching manners. It is a foreign concept now to think politicians work for the populace. Bad times are brewing.