[dopple]

"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."

- On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

Keeping your head down and just dealing with it as a choice that you can make and it is the choice that they count on you making. But it's not the only choice.