Tocqueville said: “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.” Tocqueville seems to be seeing the dangers of complacency almost 200 years ago. What is the divine perspective on this statement?

Your analysis is quite correct. Even in Tocqueville’s day, complacency of the populace was a well-worn path and tool of the darkness with the interlopers manipulating the entire population to not question, to accept their lot, and to be, in effect, disempowered. So the idea of offering resistance, let alone to be rebellious, would simply not occur, and if any such thoughts were expressed, people would simply not see it as applying to them because their complacency would not allow becoming aroused enough to join a cause to push back against higher authority in an effort to make things better. Oppression works best when the subjugated are easily manipulated and complacent and go along with the edicts without complaint, akin to sheep being herded into a holding pen. This is done to human beings again and again and again by their leaders, and using often self-generated tools to work with in the form of legislation with endless rules and their enforcement to gradually strip humanity of individual freedoms. This is always justified as being warranted because it can be argued that it supports the greater good of society, and to be sure, having troublemakers in your midst makes things messy and interferes with productivity at times. But if history has shown one thing it is that maintaining order in an absolute sense where no one raises objections, no one breaks a rule or oversteps a boundary, it is because there is an enforced manipulation resulting in complacency or there is great fear being generated because tyrants are in control and ruling by threat and power to get what they want.