It's too bad that at no point does it cross anyone's mind in the ruling class that there may be a reason for this unrest. It is the same in any regime, totalita

It's too bad that at no point does it cross anyone's mind in the ruling class that there may be a reason for this unrest. It is the same in any regime, totalitarian or otherwise, that they have a mental block where it is inconceivable to them that anyone would have a legitimate reason to protest, that anyone would be disenfranchised enough to riot, that anyone would be disconnected from society to the point where they find it acceptable to loot. Just about every nation-state on Earth from Iran to Britain to the US is equal in this regard. Frankly I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often, where 99.9% of humans have virtually no sovereignty at all. Instead, all you get are law-and-order type responses. You can't have law or order when the law doesn't apply to everyone equally.