I'm not sure why are you being downvoted, what you said is largely correct and appropriate. The tyrannies going on right now are more insidious, because people

I'm not sure why are you being downvoted, what you said is largely correct and appropriate. The tyrannies going on right now are more insidious, because people can be more insidiously cajoled into compliance and more surgically atomised from each other, and out of their moral frameworks. It's when a hot revolution happens that these highly visual acts of repression happen, as it's a feature not a bug to signal who's boss now. But if everyone already perceived and agreed to who's boss and rendered all their power to the service of the new regime, and there was no need to appease the new ruler's revenge thirst, then all of these struggle sessions would have been wasteful. Performative struggle sessions are to be expected if there's an active resistance.