About half of us all are going through it, or will be soon, and the numbers are increasing and the age of diagnoses are getting younger. That doesn't sound like we are making any progress, it seems like it is intentional at this point.

Intentional, yes. One of the many other reasons I find "peaceful protests" plain stupid. "They" have stolen everything from us, are poisoning us, are killing us, keeping and / or making us complete retards while transforming OUR Planet into some stinking, polluted, nasty prison in which we are forced to slave for the rest of our few sorry days, while our unfortunate children will be brought up as mindless robots. And the armies of imbeciles protecting "Them" are keeping this evil system alive and well, although their and their offsprings' fates aren't different from ours. If this is not the epitomy of stupidity, then I am a monkey's uncle...
We are struggling in a dying, cankerous world, and the only probable cure is one massive, painful and violent operation of complete removal of those ill cells. Which won't go easy, and will do their best to destroy as much as they can on their forced way out. Peaceful protests may be slowing down the tighting of the noose around our necks, just enough to give our enemies time to regroup and rethink, improve their plans. Nothing more.