Free polite speech has rarely been enough to have meaningful results. In the USA, you can thank the Boston Tea Party, heck the American Revolution, for politica

Free polite speech has rarely been enough to have meaningful results. In the USA, you can thank the Boston Tea Party, heck the American Revolution, for political change, and lots of civil violence in order to get a 2-day weekend and a more-or-less 40-hour work week. The Tea Partiers that the Koch brothers funded that disrupted orderly speech became Maga and run Biden campaign buses off the road, that's been effective too.