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This is like asking why the women of Afghanistan don’t just stand up to the repressive Taliban regime. We’re under a repressive regime, just a very different flavor or repression.
I mean, if you want to compare the most powerful, rich, and developed nation on earth to a totalitarian Afghanistan, that's cool with me,
Just because it's powerful, rich, and developed does not preclude it also being repressive.