VR - it is total ‘psy-ops’ via intellectually seductive propaganda - look at Castro/Cuba 1959, Chavez/Venezuela 1998, Hitler/Germany 1933.
The masses get ‘seduced’ into providing support, and while it starts with a ‘dictatorship’ of the majority, before you know it, it quickly turns into a ‘dictatorship of the minority’. By that time, it’s too late. They’ve taken over the press (now happening), rigged all the laws, sabotaged the judicial system, and taken away all the guns.