I can see the conversation now...
“The peasants are revolting.”
“Yes, yes, they are.”
(brick flies through window.)
“See?”
“Oh, I thought you just meant they were below us...and smell...”
” do love UPI’s open lie about how the taxes they are protesting were scrapped... They were simply delayed.”
Funny thing about revolutions. Starts out wit a focused, straight-forward protest about a specific policy (motor fuel taxes). Then they quickly metastasize to a whole raft of grievances, coming so quickly that the government can’t react quickly enough. Their OODA loop is too slow.