I wonder to what extent this sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If most folks don&#x27;t want to feel like they&#x27;re out of the norm (which I suspect is true), then if they think that most folks disagree with them, they might be willing to change their opinions in order to fit in with a perceived majority.<p>As a couple of folks have noted, this means that all one has to do is suborn a relatively few influencers in order to effect mass change, despite the fact that the majority would have resisted that change if they&#x27;d known the truth.<p>As the Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy might have said, some suspect that this has already happened…