Power is always at a creative disadvantage against the weak.
They do not think they have to understand us, and they do not think they have to develop sophisticated strategies and tactics to control us.
Their lazy reliance upon brutality ultimately weakens their position. The overuse of violence and intimidation nullifies its usefulness; we become accustomed to it, and, when a regime is indiscriminately brutal, we realize that we cannot even be safe if we are passive, which destroys the rationale for passivity and voids the argument against active resistance.