It appears you don't inhabit the same reality as me.
Protest has been lame, bordering on a dismal failure.
The government is the one with the dirty tricks you say? Really?
The government and their backers are probably laughing themselves to sleep every night! Sadly for the red shirts, they've been played and succumbed. Do you really think the elite suffer from such emotions as "very hollow and shallow and ashamed". If you do, then you know sweet FA.
Kudos you say...unaware of any.