"Whatever happens, We have got, The Maxim Gun, And they have not" - Belloc Hillaire, MP & poet Governments don't need nearly as much active public support as they did. Even compared to thirty years ago, governments now have pervasive surveillance, drones, and LLMs, who feel no shame, know no fear,...

Idk you should check out some South American Governments over the last 50 years. Many of them only had support at the end of a gun.