Another symptom is NSA. When there is a lack of enemies,
They are making enemies of everybody by shutting down legitimate avenues of political expression, accountability and outlawing whistle-blowing. The only reason they would go to that extent and pains to monitor everyone, but especially the American people, is to quell any unrest that happens in response to totalitarian behavior.
Over time, even the NSA’s own employees have become skeptical of the organization’s intentions and purpose.
From what I have seen in this article, I think an important direction to move towards is to concentrate on pluggable transport chaining: where obfsproxy hides that Tor is being used while flashproxy makes use of undocumented bridges - combining the benefits of both is possible. And in the future we could strongly recommend this setup or enable it by default.