Even in a dictatorship the elite rule by consent. The reason they keep nibbling away at your rights instead of just taking them is because people have to grow accustomed to their new, slightly worse situation before you can tighten the screws. If you make it too bad too fast they revolt. The BLM/Antifa riots were a few thousand people and they nearly strung up Ted Wheeler, imagine what the country would look like if a million people took to the streets. This is the idea behind terrorism. If you make things too difficult for the normie he'll demand change. If there are a million angry people rioting the police will stand aside and allow the elite to be lynched. The trick is to position yourself as the good guy and the government as the bad guy. You want the mob to lynch the right guy. For the truckies this is a solid calculation, the elite in AU are desperately trying to paint them as greedy and evil but it probably wont work. For actual terrorists they slip into the night and the only viable target is the figureheads of the elite. The failure of islamic terrorism in the west is that it turns people against the muslims and they demand the government deport them. In sand nigger countries people are willing to let ISIS or the Taliban take over because the terrorism will end, since it's ISIS/Taliban doing the terrorism.