But won’t you be forced to it too?

(Assuming you are an USAmerican in this context)
Like, imagine if you want to fight against the I-C-E or groups who want to ban abortion etc, and you use only peaceful means, while they do not care.
You’ll have to fight, right?
And if you win, wouldn’t you have to keep the mercenaries under custody or watchlists to keep them from reforming? And also actively repress their ideology using the state machinery?

If you don’t wouldn’t they overthrow you soon?

I think that is how it’d go.
But yes, excesses should be avoided and tech development should be focused on, to show even the opponents that things are better with socialism.

Even then, you’d have a minority who’d you need to be wary of.
Tho, if you are doing this in USAmerica, you have one less worry, of the USAmerica couping you.