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Let's be clear, most Americans like paycheck to paycheck and can't afford losing a job or being arrested for saying antigoverment stuff

The starving peasants in <insert any grassroots regime change, peaceful and/or violent> could afford it, right?

The trick is to keep the poor people poor, but not too poor. Nothing left to lose and all that...

Or else they might rebel like the North Koreans, Cubans, and Eritreans do?