“are being increasingly subject to a soft despotism.””
In other words, they wont walk you to the edge of a pit and shoot you in the neck. They are more refined today. They will cause you to lose your job, your livelihood, your happiness, etc. They will sue you, bankrupt you, expose sealed court records, attack your pizza restaurant or floral shop, etc.
Then you are, in poverty, with family and friends disgusted by you, having lost your worldly means of coping. No, they don’t use a 32 anymore.
Now its a soft tyranny. Doesn’t it feel soft?
Excellent post, DesertRhino.
Soft? It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I’m certain that a Scotus ruling in favor of homosexual, unnatural marriage will open the floodgates of legal persecution with penalties included. That is no longer ‘soft’. It isn’t death, but imprisonment and impoverishment are hard punishments.