Massive redpill for you all:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.htm"Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion.
[..] When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority. Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame."
If you get 10% radicalization, you can take over a culture. Trust the science bros, all hope is NOT lost.
"An important aspect of the finding is that the percent of committed opinion holders required to shift majority opinion does not change significantly regardless of the type of network in which the opinion holders are working. In other words, the percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at approximately 10 percent, regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society."
The study referenced you can find here:
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011130Now of course, this is only a model, nevertheless it is compelling. If I can find any researchers who applied it to historical examples (the study is a decade old), I'll be sure to post it.