aa777888 - I'm not going to lecture, it's not my country where policies that do good for people are seen as bad (or socialist in your terminology), it's not my country where armed people storm parliament because someone can't handle losing a fair election and it's not my country where elected politicians aid and abet insurrection, damaging democracy in the eyes of the world as they claim to be defending it.
Freedom comes with responsibility and free speech isn't a right to lie just to get your own way.
And I'll mention helicopters in the last line because I would be worried, as a military commander, how many of my people have divided loyalties.