What were the "steps" preceding Arab Spring? What were the "steps" preceding Occupy Wall Street? Or are those not emancipation movements?

At one point, there was no rebellion in Libya. A week later, there was a rebellion in progress. Now, less than a year later, a dictator has been forcefully thrown out. I don't see any "steps" there, I don't see years of careful preparation and cultivation preceding the week the revolution started. Inthe case of this country, we have yet to see the results from American Fall (Occupy Wall Street) but the movement has grown from a dozen protesters in one city to thousands upon thousands of activists in dozens of cities, and again I don't see any "steps" preceeding the initial protests, I don't see years of careful preparation finally coming to fruition.

And how far have those examples progressed in a single week, let alone a single year? In order for a revolution in thinking and policy to occur, the time has to be right for it, and the time becomes right due to a confluence of factors that come together incrementally. As the old political saying makes clear, "Revolution is simply the culmination of evolution."

We are not going to change things within a week to a year by suddenly walking out the door in large numbers and demanding fundamental change at a time when the conservatives still dominate the political scene, and when the people we desire to emancipate along with us lack most of their civil rights and will be legally unable to march along with us, and where we lack any type of public sympathy that the gays enjoyed with the mainstream liberals by the time the '70s decade rolled around. Such a thing at the present time in the present overall political climate, with the present political and legal situation of the youth community being what it is, would be nothing short of a disastrous folly.

Analyze what happened in these cases and maybe we can come up with a way to ignite our own emancipation movement. Fuel + spark = explosion.

Understood, but it takes time for sufficient fuel to be built, and for the spark to create a flame big enough to initiate the explosion of the size we desire.