Pamphlet Tipping Points

A discrete media artifact can collapse a long‑standing deliberative frame (custom, precedent, institutional compromise) and replace it with a simpler, more mobilizing frame (natural rights, pure principle). That reframing can produce rapid political realignment when the new frame resonates with concurrent events and available social networks. — Understanding how single publications or viral media act as political tipping points helps explain sudden shifts in public opinion and why regulating or countering dangerous narratives is harder than correcting factual errors.