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This helps me appreciate the mood of where you are coming from thanks! But uh I have objections also, mostly due to our spot in the thread.
I would second CronoDas' point that the mechanics of change aren't quite that simple. And I'd like to complain that this is not an example of a thing that is helped by people taking actions they don't feel hope in!
I acknowledge than the secret police setup seems like it does well at bringing in the "you can't communicate and build plans together" aspect that "coordination problem"/game-theory seems to typically evoke, I'll note though that you still have a lot of communication/observation channels (including costly ones like protesting and being taken away or killed).
More importantly it seems like the robust way out of the situation is to try to build more infrastructure for being able to act with a coalition of peers in a constructive manner. Game theory as typically thrown around seems a poor model for this imo.