“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”
– Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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How long before the military gets tired of the nonsense in Washington and imposes order.
Bob Sykes, good question but we haven’t had nearly enough social chaos in the streets and elsewhere—never mind DC. It will take a lot of chaos and violence to arouse the clueless American moderate that things are not okay. After all, to most people, “it can’t happen here”.