One of they keys to the capitalists’ success at keeping the workers down is the multiple layered alternative echo chambers where members of each are proud for not being part of the other ones, and if someone manages to break out of one, they most likely just end up in a different one and feeling smug again.

A failing dictatorship cannot have a neighbour have free elections, vote in who they want, & be economically prosperous. Thats the beginning, middle & end of it.

By vote in who they want you mean that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y?