A condition caused by panic mongering in political circles. The act of panicking the public for the purpose of pushing ahead a false agenda.
An example was first found in children's story "The Sky is Falling" Chicken Little and Henny Penny, panicked when an acorn fell on their heads. Acorn Politics is using the media and popular culture to panic the masses regarding a perceived social ill. examples: weapons of mass destruction, anthropomorphic global warming; Y2K global computer failures
Basically, an acorn barnacle is when the female has a barnacle-looking patch growing between her legs, along with maggots eating away at her pearl. There is a video online that you can watch to get a better picture.
Dave: yo dude i just had sex with tz the other day and turns out she got acorn barnacles John: holy shit!!!
1. A person who takes hard evidence to the people by publishing it on the internet such as publishing youtube videos that expose public corruption.
2. Any individual who plays an active role in exposing fraud and corruption, abuse and deceptive practices or any involvement in subverting the interests of justice or publlic responsibility that includes exposing facts and evidence on the internet that may not otherwise be exposed by the media such as youtube videos exposing Acorn Corruption and Fraud.
The new group of activists are refered to as "Acorn Crackers" who expose public corruption using the internet publishing resourses like youtube to make evidence such as recordings and videos of officials engaged in wrongdoings known and assessable to the general public, often thwarting media attempts to suppress public interest stories for possible self interest reasons.
The new atmospher created by internet publishing simplicity has created an open door for "Acorn Crackers" to expose public corruption by means of publishing incriminating evidence, video tapes, recorded phone calls, etc. baddly needed to bring about changes long over due.