Yes, but did you figure in the political engineering implemented to drive out those that know better?
Boston's Curley bragged about chasing out those that would oppose him in the first half of the 20th century with higher taxes and other "city hall" methods.
Coleman Young must have had the blueprint.
Whatever tricks that the would be tyrants will use or have used on the free is up to the free to be prepared for.
It is their freedom afterall.
Those who would rule plot endlessly, while those who are free stop plotting as soon as they are free it would seem.
Once one is free, one must then stay free or one will not be free.
That is the way of man, and to assume anything else will result in being a subject.
If a free man is aware of plots against his freedom, there really is only one effective answer to such plots.