Crooked Hillary!

That would require so much more than this. You are projecting an apocalypse based on nothing more than noise and bluster. This is no different from the last six decades of incompetent uninformed populace listening to fear mongering and conspiracy theories and there are no where near the numbers of people involved in this particular one to even register.

I'm not entirely sure how much further you are saying it needs to go. The Clinton Foundation is a scandal that is already several orders of magnitude larger than the entirety of Watergate.

Nor are the majority of them competent enough to even think of something as simple as "lets not pay our taxes in protest".

All it takes it one person that's charismatic enough to lead them by the noses in each community. If people are too stupid to think not to pay taxes, they are also too stupid to resist becoming a flock under a person who has similar ideologies but is able to articulate them more effectively.

Their idea of protesting is screaming at the top of their lungs into their personal vacuums, patting themselves on the back for the great change they've accomplished, and going back to their lives as if nothing ever happened. Because that's what the overwhelming majority of people do when faced with change that doesn't visibly, directly and tangibly touch them, and thanks to the checks and balances in our system that includes which person-mask our tyrannical overlords are wearing in any given political season.

I do agree that for the most part people as a whole will ignore things that don't directly influence them. The main difference is that, while you feel that the aforementioned breakpoint has not been reached yet, I feel that it is at the boiling point, and if Hillary is elected it will spill over.

Even if she isn't elected it may still spill over if she isn't convicted on anything, or if it doesn't there will still be permanent changes in how the general public sees those that govern them. Even if she isn't put away and nothing overt happens, the little trust we had left for our government would be gone after that point, it would really just be pushing the issue back a couple decades at most, and the boiling point reached then would be even larger than the one that would happen now given that people would have had several decades more to stew in their negative feelings about the disparity between the top and the middle/bottom of society. It's possible that nothing will happen even then, but if it doesn't, that will be the moment this country ceases to be a democracy and people accept it as a dictatorship. Sometimes holding to the status quo is a reaction nobody can resist, but I really hope it doesn't come to that.