“Push came to shove years ago”
I’m afraid you’re right.
It kidn of like quitting smoking. Like most smokers, I remember sayin “I’ll quit when they get to $3.00 / pack.”
Then $4.00, then 5.00, etc.
The same mechanism is in play. As long as they do it gradually, most people will tolerate it.
Things really have to get VERY bad in everyday life for people to resort to revolution.
RE: “.............It kidn of like quitting smoking. Like most smokers, I remember sayin “I’ll quit when they get to $3.00 / pack.”
Then $4.00, then 5.00, etc.
The same mechanism is in play. As long as they do it gradually, most people will tolerate it.
Things really have to get VERY bad in everyday life for people to resort to revolution.”
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You consider what’s happening ‘gradual?’ I don’t — Obama and his commie pals are running roughshod over the populace and we are increasingly intolerant. On vacation recently in the mountains I met some like-minded people from a very ‘blue’ area of my same state — I admired their “Obummer” bumper sticker and the woman said I was the third person that day to say something. Usually in CA no one says anything.
We talked some more and agreed many additional people are seeing the light, except for the usual lamebrained lefties who never ‘get it’ and don’t want to — watching MSNBC and singing Zero’s praises. A pox on that. The rest of us MUST act — THE TIME IS NOW! November means a LOT. If elections are stolen (again), look out Obama!
The same mechanism is in play. As long as they do it gradually, most people will tolerate it.
Things really have to get VERY bad in everyday life for people to resort to revolution.
Thank you for posting this. It's nice to know that at least one other person on FR is living in the real world instead of some video game fantasyland.