It seems that people (in power; but especially ones commenting on such articles; those with cynical spin mostly) perceive life in a country as a computer game.<p>Where &quot;dissidents&quot; will happen to your country, and you have to implement &quot;measures&quot; to make them go away, and then you call it a day. Because game rules incentivize you to do exactly that.<p>The reality is: Life happens to your country. People happen to your country. Things happen to your country that are outside of your control. DDR&#x27;s Stasi had kilogramms of dossiers on every its citizen, and it got scrapped in a few days with as little as a handshake.