Hide like a good little chicken.
No thanks. We need to grow some spine, not give up the last of it.
Clearly, some of us are more firm in our convictions than others, some would dearly love to still believe that *it can't happen here* and will wait until the most egregious examples finally prove that it has, and some have much more to lose than others.
No problem, that just means that some will serve as *canaries in the mine* for others who come later to the party, and whose reinforcement will be desperately needed. See the late Colonel Cooper's thoughts on such matters in his story Survivor, telling of one Gerhard Tauchnit's escape from a post-WWII Soviet concentration, in Cooper's anthology To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth."
An attitude which pretty much assures that it WILL in fact happen. The time to fight is when you are still strong and casualties may still be light. Later, after your enemies have wittled down your support, limited your options, and marginalized you totally... it may be too late to do anything other than get on the box car with everyone else.
The path to avoid this is to NOT GIVE UP GROUND NOW. Take a pro-Constitutionally protected Right stance as extreme as you can bring yourself to believe it. Most of your really tough battles will be with those on your OWN side and if you do have to compromise a bit, make sure you STILL have a net gain from where you started.
This isn't hopeless. We CAN effect change without triggering TEOTWAWKI. There is no need to "run and hide" or bury the very tools we have a Right to be proud of.
Is it possible you mispelled Gerhard Tauchnit's name? I Googled it and came up with nothing; His sounds like a compelling story and I would like to know more about it.
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Superbly stated, thank you.