>>where we’ll always have 20% of the citizenry being chronic whiners
They aren’t just chronic whiners. They are “activists”. They are willing to take their whining to the streets and to get concessions from the people in power. The police won’t clear a street blocked by these whiner-activists, but some brave citizen will push through with his truck. But if he hurts one in the process (as he should!), the full force of the law will come down on him and the rest of us will do nothing. Would we block the courthouse so the judge can’t enter to try this brave citizen? No. We’re too busy working so we can have a nice vacation or a new boat or an early retirement.
You see, we are not activists. But, the Founders were.
We are in a war of ideologies today, not a war for independence. They see themselves as the Founders of a “Great New Utopian Progressive Paradise”. They ARE in a war for independence, at least they believe they are and beliefs are the source of motivations.
We are the Tories trying to defend a way of life that does not work as well in the Information Age as it did in the Industrial Age.
The overused comparison to the American Revolution does not apply today. You use a Bluto meme to illustrate your point, but where is YOUR Deathmobile and bag of marbles to wreck one of their protest marches? Are you taking the torch to your vehicle this weekend to armor it up?
First, I disagree that the present-day comparison with history is null and void. At almost every step along the way of this American Experiment, there was a minority of rabble punching above their weight in terms of noise and violence. Ultimately, someone had to push back, and historically the push back won.
And it's happening now. Now, I DO agree that one year ago, it was looking grim. Then Trump won, and now I see an emboldened citizenry pushing back. Yea, yea, I know...we still have MSNBC ratings rising, universities with anti-freedom rules, and the like. But now we have Deplorables staging anti-statist protests. I saw an incredible video of black citizens picketing a Maxine Waters town hall. This was NOT happening until recently. Why? Because it looked like the Thelma and Louise option was all that was left.
As for what I am doing, well, I never surrender my position. Let's just say Operation DoodleBob is up and away and yielding benefits.
We’re too busy working so we can have a nice vacation or a new boat or an early retirement.
to which you can add blowing time and money travelling around the world for no purpose other than to say we did it, and to possess photographs of us grinning aside local landmarks...women seem particularly addicted to this foolishness...