They just drift as the wind blows. However, gather together enough snowflakes in one place, still floating in air, and they are no longer idly floating particles. They become an avalanche, a roaring cloud of snow that rolls down the mountainside, crushing everything in its path. Snowflakes do not conspire together to become an avalanche. There are no meetings behind closed doors, no coded messages, no secret cabals of snowflake leaders.
Snowflakes simply follow their natural inclinations.
It is the collusion of their natural inclinations that does all the damage. Looking for a hidden conspiracy behind snowflake behavior entirely misses the point. There is no conspiracy to avalanche, there is only the avalanche itself. Similarly, in the struggle to protect liberty it is not necessary to believe that there are conspiracies against the civil rights of all Americans. It is perfectly adequate to observe that many people believe that liberty is less important than safety, security, or the maintenance of someone else's moral standards.