@Radical_EgoCom if socialism is truly what the people want, the counter-revolution can talk all it wants and never get enough support to succeed. Any political system that relies on suppressing alternate ideas is destined to become a police state regardless of how antithetical that is to the ideals that system espouses. One can argue this is why the United States is so rife for the pendulum swings we see in party power dynamics: roughly half the voters are told their opinions are invalid