The same goes for talk of “revolution.” And “dictatorship.”

When all you’ve ever known is life in a stable liberal democracy with rule of law, and the greatest hardship you’ve endured was when the power went off and you had no wireless for a day, and the worst injustice you have suffered was that cop giving you a ticket because he didn’t like you, you have no idea how fortunate you are. Or how much a descent into political violence would cost us all.