We are living proof of the proper way to boil frogs, yes. But the degree of outrage we might feel is a different subject entirely from the tactics to use in the struggle to address that outrage.g-man wrote:This. In spades. The tax on tea was three pence per pound, less than I currently pay in sales tax on EVERYTHING, not even considering the income tax. The issue at hand then was that the East India Company no longer had to pay the taxes on tea they were going to ship to America, thereby increasing their profit with no affect to their workload. Sound at all like the taxpayer dollars that were pumped into GM and Chrysler or any of a litany of Wall Street banks because they were 'too big to fail'?Aesop wrote:At least, until you realize that the "long train of abuses and usurpations" pales in comparison to the sorts of anti-liberty BS we undergo every year now.
Then you realize this isn't as abstract and arcane a discussion as it might be considered, on first look...
Schrecklichkeit can work. It's a grave error made by naive wishful thinking fools to say that terror tactics never work. Because they often do. It's also a grave error to assume that ramping up the nastiness is always the best, most effective way to respond. Or even justified.
