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There is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the billionaires behind those factories should be in jail, you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.

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> you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.

Believe it or not, V for Vendetta is not actually a handbook on how to run a democracy.

One could, however, argue that Thomas Jefferson had some valid points on democracies and the running therof. And it's him that V for Vendetta was riffing off:

“A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”

On the other hand, a point could be made that it's totalitarian regimes where governments are afraid of their citizens (those in fear of losing their powers, especially illegitimately obtained, start suppressing freedoms and surveilling everyone).

Democracy is "rule by the people." You are not "the people," so you should fear democracy.

Why is it that most HN politicos have nothing useful to say besides, "Be afraid"?

It might be because there really are things that should be feared, and these people are telling the truth.

Why should they be feared?

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