I think you really underestimate the desire of people to not have to be bothered with this kind of stuff. No matter how insane things get people tend to say "well, it could be worse. We've still got beer and football".

I would, for example, never consider moving to the UK with their surveillance, etc., but they obviously have a large populace that disagrees.

Trying to force people into doing something they just don't want to do never works.