In and of itself that's a signal that for some reason things like this don't seem to make the general public change their behavior en masse?

I'd love to see some kind of reporting/study on why on average the general public does not respond to events you mention like Snowden/Manning/OWS/Bank Bailout and others. I mean at one point in time social movements in the US got things done like Temperance Movement, Womens Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movement etc...

Maybe there is a larger narrative here that I'm missing, like each of these things are part of the anti-corporate movement or something.