As was noted above, when the majority of the population have FSD cars (or otherwise personally directly benefit) from autonomous cars, then the political will changes quickly.
You are of course correct about business's calculations and the effect on consumers absent Agent Orange's strategy regarding the institutions mentioned below.
The political will is already changing and will do more after some of its wildest dreams of the current single-party dominated courts, Congress, and the White House are implemented. These will have the effect of a war on the poor and the middle class aside from the overt war currently waged against women and people of color. However, the disconnect between political will of the masses and the electoral process will continue to mean progressive change will again be thwarted or worse, civil war. A portion of the disaffected voters in the last election are armed, often able if veterans, and probably psychologically or financially less secure than readers of this forum. That is why it is so important for Agent Orange to disparage not only his opponents in the political realm, but attack any competing institutions, particularly information sources like the media and the intelligence services on the one hand, educational establishments like public education or elite universities in the long run, and, of course, the electoral process itself. We have seen this pattern in history repeated over and again. Perhaps the best recent examples are what happened in Germany and to Russia in the last century.
The most likely way to distract the great unwashed, in this I include myself, will probably be war with China. That could end quickly if the one report I've seen that Trump believes in the madman theory of the Presidency which Nixon propounded for the first time. (The progressive version is called "going Bulworth.") However, the beauty of a conventional war with either China, Russia, or the U.S.—countries that cannot be defeated by conventional means—is the war will be endless, thus obviating the need for any further elections—as Orwell so presciently wrote. Long ago Aristotle advised in his discourse on how to avoid revolutions, one technique is to "bring distant dangers near."
Personally I am not in such a dark spot as symptomized. However, my favorite all time course was something called "Authoritarian Mass Movements," which was not all about excrement or a proctologist's entry level class, as one colleague wagged. It was about the pathological quest for certainty. I would begin with a discourse on love and how we could find community with a loved one, the world has problems, but we can stand together until death, yackity, yack yack. Then what Maxim Gorky defined as love, "a madness due to a failure of the mind to comprehend the world," and then to Nazism, Fascism, Maoism, the purges in Russia, etc. That form of love, or idolatry, a colleague and former drinking companion used to call, "being in heat, or, **sugar.**) The Greeks who had so many categories of love probably have a word for what a psychiatrist friend of mine said once "all the major religions teach that one should love 'impersonally.'"
To turn Rousseau right side up, "everywhere people are born free, yet everywhere they are looking for chains, that is to say, certainty."
I really feel sorry for Agent Orange and his idolatrous followers, they are so insecure. Paradoxically, bullies don't like to be bullied. A truly conflicted psychology. I must read again the warning by Harvard Business School's expert on negotiations:
How to Build an Exit Ramp for Trump Supporters
