Nadeshiko decides to go solo camping. To entertain herself, she decides to experiment with cooking foil-wrapped vegetables and makes friends with some kids.
Rin and Nadeshiko's sister team up to secretly observe her and make sure she hasn't gotten in over her head.
Once the sun sets, the temperatures drop below freezing and the girls are in for more than they bargained for.
Their neighbors let them warm up near their stove, and Toba takes her advisory duties seriously and comes to check on them. They sleep in her car overnight.
Anyway, when people say <The crowd demanded an outrageous political outcome>, I have to ask if the crowd is just whiny, or if they're actually a revolution.
This begs for an analogy to temperature and pressure. Perhaps circumstances can be such that superheated public opinion will convert to revolution instantly.
Perhaps allowing a little yelling as a treat lets off steam, lowering the risk of revolution.
This is implicitly based on an assumption about the speed of the phase change. The Totalitarian assumes that a crowd can quickly become a revolution and must be prevented, while the American assumes it takes time.
Contrariwise, a Totalitarian state tries to prevent the formation of whiny crowds in the first place.
Then we can suggest that the American attitude to free speech and assembly is to allow whiny crowds, but disperse them if they become violent mobs, well before there's any risk of actual revolution.
Suppose there's a phased continuum between:
A whiny crowd
A violent mob
An actual revolution