JotSC

There seems to be a misunderstanding.

I wasn't trying to invalidate any of your comments. I was simply observing that there must have been some public support for the measure. I thought that the conversation was going to much in the direction of "stupid government vs smart people." I thought about that for a while and realized that that was probably not the case.

I guess your are right about dictators. But I would suspect that Mousilini had more public support in keeping the trains on time than Stalin did killing 20 million of his countrymen. But obviously many of the evil deeds of the dictators are not done in public, they are veiled in secrecy. By definition actions done in secret do not have public support.