I don't exactly have a lot of hope that "this time" it will be any different. People were pretty salty after the Bush election and still NOTHING happened.
Lets be honest for a second - most of the American public's eyes glaze over when we get into the heart of these issues. All they hear is blah blah blah techno babble just fix my computer please -- why is my internet slow.
Honestly - we (the technologists) are the only ones who can hold ourselves accountable... And we haven't done a very good job thus far.