When you see people gathering to protest their government in the streets, you already know they've lost.
Public outrage without alternative defaults and direction is content for the Controllers, not counter-power.
If the plebs had direction and alternative defaults, then they wouldn't have to protest in the streets.
E.g. if they executed a mass tax revolt + adopting Bitcoin as MoE, they wouldn't have to beg for government officials who despise them to pay attention.