Thanks, and will agree to disagree, albeit my take may be saying the same thing in the end. Extrapolating from Milgram experiment, about 1/3 will continue to follow authority no matter what, and about 1/3 will be saved by their values and critical-thinking skills, but that middle 1/3 will go with whatever side seems to be winning at the time. So, if a society is not at the point of “nothing left to lose” yet, “honest public opinion” can flip much of the middle 1/3, to yield a majority.