Every time I see comments like yours, the thought runs through my head that your statement is correct... But only if it is actually put to that unspoken use.
Otherwise, it’s just an empty threat that can be safely ignored.
Judging from the lack of dead corrupt politicians, I think our threats are ringing pretty hollow...
This is true; but the founders knew it well:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Judging from the lack of dead corrupt politicians, I think our threats are ringing pretty hollow...
Nobody wants to be the guy to rock the boat; nobody wants to be the guy that was just a crazy loon
; and those in power take advantage of it. Those in power know what Yuri Bezmenov talked about and want the opposition demoralized and normalized so that it is impossible to resist them.