I'm not sure. I'm really not. I'd like to think people would stand up, but, people seem to mostly do that when they've got little left to lose. For the average law abiding citizen, we have a lot to lose. A lot to potentially gain, to be sure, but that's only a potential. When you have kids and your family and no way to just get off grid and away from the mess, it can be paralyzing. They need a real push. Maybe they'd be emboldened by seeing so many others take action first. If that potential looks more and more attainable, I can see them going for it.
And I think they will. The current administration is close to pushing them over that edge. They're so close. They continue with what I'll call their soft-tyranny, staying within a razors edge of legality. Like this vaccine mandate...if they really wanted to make everyone get a shot, they'd just start doing it by force. But THAT, would push many if not most of us over the edge. And I think they know that. That would be a push too far.
Regrettably, if they continue with that approach as they have for decades, our rights will just continue to be slowly eroded. Or given away, depending on how you look at it.
Five well placed bombing and the war would have been over in a week. But, the momentum is gone. The opportunity is gone.
There is no pushing over the edge that will create a pushback from the right, only the prodding of a bloated corpse that wince here and there.
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