What Do You Want Me to Do?

If you had ten % of the people committed to something and a whole bunch of useful idiots, youc'n take over a country. The collapse of the soviet union happened because people, even dictators, are responsive to people. They can't continually do things against public pressure. You can go back to the nineteenth chapter of first kings and see this same thing with jezebel. She could not do what she wanted to because of public pressure.