That actually seems like the sort of thing to foster a rebellion. It usually does. As Sir Pterry wrote in Small Gods: “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
Not that it matters. You guys couldn’t even be arsed to play a round or two of M:TG, how do you expect to rise to power?