Do you have evidence those citizens desire a happy coexistence and repeal of these laws? The survey linked elsewhere in this thread claims the opposite.
Of course that doesn't mean the top people aren't "abusing" the laws to get more control.
Of course that doesn't mean the top people aren't "abusing" the laws to get more control.
That said, I would still trust someone trying to reform that from within to be more likely to get it right, rather than people who have never lived in that society, and comment on it one way or the other in a programming forum (such as, particularly, myself).
Maybe in America? Not so in other countries.