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To: lapsus calami

That’s true, there’s always a certain percentage of people who will fight back.

Unfortunately, things have to get a lot worse before we can hope for a big enough percentage to mount an actual revolution.

Even in the American Revolution, it was only a minority that took up arms - many farmers and merchants cooperated with the British or tried to stay neutral.

In fact, the problem of colonists cooperating with the British - feeding, housing and supplying them - created an perverse situation wherein Washington often had to burn colonial farms, warehouses and bridges in order to thwart the British.

This caused colonials to resent the Revolutionaries and to consider them troublemakers, rather than freedom fighters.

It was similar to the way the Left today calls us “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists” whenever we lift a finger to fight back.


58 posted on 05/02/2022 4:12:12 PM PDT by enumerated
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Thus has it always been, before the Revolutionary War and after. Human nature has never changed and is always predictable. The processes are always the same over and over again through the ages. If you've made a good study of human nature you will always pretty well know what comes next during a political ascent or descent of a society.
 
 

60 posted on 05/02/2022 5:33:13 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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