This is like red scare orientalist bingo. You have

-Public events are actually a deceptive show for whitey -Showing face -Everyone there is only pretending to be happy because Something Bad will happen to their families (how many generations?) if the don’t.

At what point does believing all of these conventient copes to get around having to engage with the concept of an actually popular government start to take on the qualities of a cult’s belief structure?