Let me tell you what will level the playing field ... a great bloody mob. Yes, mobs tend to coalesce around an "eloquent speaker" (a "rabble rouser" ... think about what that term literally means). But it is the existence of a mob, per se, that makes those ignoring the "eloquent speech," finally listen.
To wit, the Storming of the Bastille:
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If the dummies insist upon anarchy, give them anarchy.
Quill