The concern trolls are probably just spooks paid to forum slide. They did a hell of a job -- nobody ever got a chance to seriously talk about the notion; we all spent the entire time arguing with them instead of focusing on what matters, myself included.

The government's real power here though is in the fear -- everyone's afraid to openly talk about such things because they fear they're being spied on by NSA spooks or the FBI or whatever. And most importantly, it's become taboo and socially unacceptable to talk about revolution, and that's the way the government set it up through decades of propaganda and how it intends to keep things, down to the very last innocent life. When everyone feels comfortable openly talking about revolution, there'll be no need for anybody to be afraid anymore, and that's what the system truly fears. Then it'll be impossible to arrest people for fomenting such talk since they literally can't actually arrest everybody.

That, clearly, is the most important thing that needs to happen. Once the wall of fear comes down, so does their shitty house of cards they've been using to control everybody. The concern trolls are here to keep it up, hence the forum sliding.