In other words, you're far too cowardly to actually do it unless a bunch of other folks went ahead of you.
And that is exactly why it won't happen--because your fellow Americans are most likely like you.
"In other words, you're far too cowardly to actually do it unless a bunch of other folks went ahead of you.
And that is exactly why it won't happen--because your fellow Americans are most likely like you."
Of course.
I am French.
We are universally believed to be cowards.
I am not interested in suicide and pointless self- immolation.
But I do observe that in France, the people routinely face down the government and force it to retreat, because there is the willingness to follow the lead and stand together, in solidarity. Individually? No. You will get your brains beat out by the CRS. But unionized movements and organized movements? Yes. Those things can work. Individuals are weak and powerless. But collectively, they are mightier than government.
Because I am a cowardly French, I am only willing to move en masse with others. And when we do this, our government is beaten and broken and pulls back laws and retreats in fear.
When I am wearing my American hat, the same is true. I am only willing to move en masse with others. I am not interested in being beaten to a pulp by a sherriff to make some sort of pointless "protest" or to be thrown into a jail cell for "Bubba" to rape me. We French are cowards. We will only move en masse. But we Americans? We fear our government much more deeply than the French do. We will not move AT ALL, ever.