Asymmetry of critique

It occurred to me that one of the reasons that communism is so appealing to the brainwashed masses is that the only people who are allowed to badmouth their own countries are people who have freedom of speech. What we are presented with is a single-sided critique of the world in which one side is full of angst and discontent, while the other side is curiously silent. Idiots take that silence for contentment. They should take that silence as a grim warning.