[CamperBob2]

Surely at some point they'll see that what they're being told doesn't make sense.

I remember thinking that way, too, back in 2016.

[SyzygistSix]

That's not an apt comparison. It could be if Trump (or anyone else) won or "won" the second election, then modified the constitution to allow himself to run again, and was still in office.

A lot of people accepted the corruption because life became significantly better. And was noticeably freer in some ways, like the allowance of non-state media and the freedom to leave, compared to the Communist era.