@bad_immigrant
A few maybes, but no 1 answer perhaps.
Maybe because our own oppression seems a lot more persuadable than an even more archaic system or mentality or whatever that is mostly out of touch for those on the other side geographically (so not much better with neighbours on this side but still closer and more cosmopolitan compared, which could also be false sense of hope too but dealing further out is even more out of our range perhaps)

Not even sure what "Stand with the people" means... any clue?
Maybe we think a group has more power than any own country or our own 'small' politics

And maybe well it's 'work in progress' trying to filter all this as each wave of problems show weaknesses and we try and answer it with things like 'standing with the people' when most people are xyz and don't know where they are going and therefore can't even hold a conversation since they/we are shooting off into all kinds of directions and emotions.

Do let me know what the most painless way is to die - I think many don't want to live but don't want to kill themself and prefer to accept defeat / unresolvable situation or at least no without mutual loss again. End the Chess / Scheming.