"My hope lies in the best in people; in the fact that we've become SO accustomed to freedom that I think truly giving it up will cause a revolt."
But as you noted, the erosion of our rights has been going on a lot longer than just this administration. I fear we're acting like the frog being slowly boiled alive, never noticing how hot the water has gotten until it's too late to jump out.
"My terror and my pity rests in what we have become: a population that lets itself be pandered to, be bought with ridiculously cheap tax-cuts that cost us so much more in the no-so-long run"
Somewhere I've got a quote stashed away that I hadn't decided whether to use or not, I think it's from Benjamin Franklin, about how once the populace realizes it can vote itself money, that's the end of the republic.
You're being an idealist (I should know how to recognize one by now, since I'm called that all the time). I hope you're right. I fear you're not. I don't think we can afford to wait and see based on that hope, because the stakes are so high and it's so hard to see the threshold until long after we've crossed it.
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But as you noted, the erosion of our rights has been going on a lot longer than just this administration. I fear we're acting like the frog being slowly boiled alive, never noticing how hot the water has gotten until it's too late to jump out.
"My terror and my pity rests in what we have become: a population that lets itself be pandered to, be bought with ridiculously cheap tax-cuts that cost us so much more in the no-so-long run"
Somewhere I've got a quote stashed away that I hadn't decided whether to use or not, I think it's from Benjamin Franklin, about how once the populace realizes it can vote itself money, that's the end of the republic.
You're being an idealist (I should know how to recognize one by now, since I'm called that all the time). I hope you're right. I fear you're not. I don't think we can afford to wait and see based on that hope, because the stakes are so high and it's so hard to see the threshold until long after we've crossed it.
So I'm an idealist, and even I am scared.