This is psyops. Get everybody to wear some 'solidarity' sign, then turn the messaging toward 'we are all together', then pump that 'Global Citizen' stuff, then when people are all feeling scared of independence trot out Obama saying all of his platitudes. It turns out it was a GOOD thing that the fine folks at the FBI were spying (for safety's sake), and the Chinese idea of social virtue points seems to be a wise thing...