Where are you O Modern George?
I know now just how brave Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the others were. The tyranny we face from DC is far worse than what Britain was doing to the colonies. But our founding fathers saw a better way, something worth doing, even at risk of everything for them.
There were those who valued “current prosperity” and “stability”. They were called Tories, loyalists, and other. They had theirs and didn’t want to rock the boat.
It is clear who the Tories these days are. What is not clear is who are the Thomas Jeffersons ? Who, in the top 1/2% of our business/economic elite, is ready to lose it all on behalf of unborn generations?
So far, it appears nobody wants that duty.
Note that removing the permanent political class doesn’t require blood or war, at least on the part of the dissenters. The state is vulnerable. If even a 1,000 people deny New York City their taxes, it shuts down. Similarly, about 10,000 would shut down the US government. If organized and acting in concert.
As to blood, while the dissenters wouldn’t be violent, it wouldn’t be long before the “takers” got bloody. They would send their IRS, their FBI, their DEA and who knows what else after dissenters with order to stop this quickly and by whatever means possible. I and many other productive people been the recipient of IRS ire in the past. They start with threats and go up from there, even when it was their mistake.
So don’t be confused about who is bleeding when I state that only blood will separate the political class from power. The patriots would bleed first.
It isn’t something I want. Just something I see.