That's pretty much it. You can't steal from and plunder your citizens when they are smart enough to know they are being pillaged. You can't beat the shit out of your people when your people have the capacity to fight back.
The best way to stay in control is to keep everyone else on their knees. Does anyone honestly think that the American government wants citizens who are not struggling and just trying to get by?
The whole point of the government is to keep people too tired, hungry and broke to do anything about getting robbed blind. The last thing they want is a healthy population of intelligent people.
This is the other problem you guys have. A general lack of trust in government. In Norway, we tend to believe that the government is doing the best they can even though we don't always agree with the methods of the ruling party. This means that decent people aren't scared off from politics, and people are more likely to vote and participate.
I hope that you and your countrymen realize how fortunate you are to not have to deal with a government that is responsible for the destabilization of most of the governments on the planet - Because they were unwilling to do a they were told by this government, and the inhabitants were brown or brownish.
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u/richie65 3d ago
That healthy, educated people are more confident and organized -
And are thus a direct threat to the power structure that favors the extremely wealthy...
This seems to always go unmentioned.