The tipping point was the growing disparity between 2 Hawaii's, the one that caters to tourists, foreigners, investors and the rich, and the one that everyday locals live in.  The growing tourism industry continues to erode at locals' quality of life, and a lot of development and progress caters to the tourist, foreigners, investors and the rich.  Yet, locals continue to pay the high cost of living having nothing to show for it, just rundown buildings, poor infrastructure, neglected public spaces, weak schools, homeless problem, questionable rail project, and so on.