btw. Trudie just outlawed wearing yellow vests at protests. Isn't fascism grand?
A few quotes may help them.
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.
― Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson "Why Nations Fail"