Concomitantly the tolerance for abuse has dropped rapidly. It used to be the government was racist and often genocidal, and the public tolerated or participated

Concomitantly the tolerance for abuse has dropped rapidly. It used to be the government was racist and often genocidal, and the public tolerated or participated. Nowadays you cannot shoot and kill some protesters nearly so blithely. The state is armed to the teeth because the fear is greater: the populace also has magnified powers.