Anybody else sensing winds of change?

Just taking a wide survey of Reddit and news items, the last week or so have ignited a spark in this country I thought was dead. Maybe the 1st amendment mojo hasn't been completely lost after all. Being someone who came of age 1965-1975, for a while I was asking myself, "Why are people so passive? Why aren't the maddening events producing a loud response?" But now I see the fraction of posts of the "Time to assemble" sort slowly crawling upwards, and the breeze of political action is picking up. Have enough lines been finally crossed for people to get over their fatalism?