These people believe (as did the ineffectual idiots who ran the Weimar Republic, and the later idiots who destroyed the USSR) that control of information and th

These people believe (as did the ineffectual idiots who ran the Weimar Republic, and the later idiots who destroyed the USSR) that control of information and the social narrative will prevent the population from rebelling in the face of economic decline. They are dead wrong, and they are only making things worse by distorting the feedback loop that could correct bad policy.