sure its much easier to manage things when you don't have freedom of expression as a constitutional right, and especially when you aren't bothered by things like actually being a representative democracy.

when you're at the point of opining banning your opposition (Germany), cancelling elections after losing them (Romania), or dissolving parliament because you are about to (France), it's not really that big of a step to complain that somebody can afford to buy more stickers for candidate you don't like than you can.

in fact you can even just skip the pretense and go directly back to being a monarchy, which would save on european hypocricy and a lot of bookkeeping in general :blabcat: