the PTB get scared of the potential for uprisings.

It's not as big a threat in the US as in other countries, because we are so spread out geographically and so divided against each other (by design, I feel).

I live in Boston. I saw (on TV, during a massive lockdown) what equipment and arms our local and state police used to roam the streets. There's another thread on DU now, talking about residents of Watertown, the town that got the brunt of the "roaming" and how they have PTSD, etc.

I don't know how scared the PTB are, now that the Security State is so omnipresent and well armed and equipped, not to mention the presence of gated communities, panic rooms in higher priced homes, their own bodyguards, and the like.

That is one of the problems with people wanting to repeat the success they assume they had in the 60s and the 70s, before lobbyists increased exponentially, before 911, before the Security State. So many things are so very different now.