Many seem extremely cowardly & seem to rarely say what they actually believe in face to face interactions.

And covid was a really good illustration of who people were. A lot of people on the left used it as an excuse to claim moral superiority over others by way of their greater ability to be mindlessly obedient. 

 If there's a blinded box (ballot box) and it would allow people to take whatever percentage of wealth from the "rich" to redistribute to "the others", socialists (economically naive) will keep maxing it out while saying on public something else.

Democracy is Milgram experiment of itself.