Yes, the tide is turning definitely. I've watched things progress for the worse for the better part of 20 years, so, I've never been more pleased than recently in watching that get turned back.
I lost the link, but there was a hypnotist that did a demonstration to determine if a person could be hypnotized and programmed where they would assassinate someone with no memory of the event. It took about a week or two to go from finding a person who was susceptible to having the person hear a signal to be drawn into a trance and shoot, and then forgetting that anything happened during the trance. Quite scary to think that an assassin could be programmed without their knowledge like that.