Step 1: Find out what's going on
Step 2: Say that something has to be done about it
Step 3: Say you are the man to do it
Step 4: Offer a solution to the problem
Step 5: Now with your new found support and money get symbolic victories to make yourself even more important
Congrats you made it, you're really an important person and not some ugly bacteria that infests everything and reproduces for the sake of reproducing