The peasants of the world should take notes from the French.
Governments should be terrified of their people, not the other way around as is near universal in the developed world.
Which, as anyone could have predicted, has led to really dystopian results. The people should be the point, not the apparatuses that entrench the power/capital of the citizenry's most effectively selfish sociopaths.
As it is, governments are more concerned with maintaining their economies, what should be lowly tools that exist solely to benefit the society they serve as a method to equitably distribute goods and services to the citizens of said society, and that should be continously optimized in service to that goal alone.
The US would bomb its own citizens if Wall Street thought it would somehow goose GDP. Look what we do to our citizens who don't play ball with what our glorious economy demands of them.
We let them die of exposure, when our ~~police~~ capital defense forces aren't brutalizing them from one ditch or underpass to the next, while a large portion of our most disgusting citizens hiss at them for lowering their fucking property values by selfishly continuing to draw breath. Great fucking "society." 🖕
