That’s what the interviewer asked too. The voices didn’t like that question…

They were probably less cowardly

Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.

This is how the brownshirts operated. Just thugs, power trippin’, and attracting the absolute worst people who WANT to wear balaclavas and have the excuse to be intimidating assholes and have the power to bundle people into vans (or railcars).

Churchill also did not hold elections during WWII either. Wartime requirements for a country under attack from an outside force take precedent.