Sometimes Not so "Gradual" such as Comrade President for Life, FDR's confiscation of American Citizen's Gold Wealth. Hopefully that would not be "acceptable" today, But the Jab was acceptable and still has residual supplicants while the SAD's manifest. Do We Really Ever Learn Anything???
Good point about the gold seizure. (That was denounced on the floor of the Senate, by the way.) Much else has been imposed upon us through "salami slicing," such that only a few persons were disturbed by any individual "slice." We've lost the greater part of our firearms rights that way, for example.
Do we ever learn? Good question. I have no answer. It's possible that some learn, while others continue on in indifference, and still others shout down the "learners" for daring to oppose "the greater good." The dynamics of creeping totalitarianism aren't understood at the detail level, only end-to-end.
Where an outright socialist insurrection would have failed, gradualism has succeeded.
Sometimes Not so "Gradual" such as Comrade President for Life, FDR's confiscation of American Citizen's Gold Wealth. Hopefully that would not be "acceptable" today, But the Jab was acceptable and still has residual supplicants while the SAD's manifest. Do We Really Ever Learn Anything???
Hope Springs Eternal, All the Best
Good point about the gold seizure. (That was denounced on the floor of the Senate, by the way.) Much else has been imposed upon us through "salami slicing," such that only a few persons were disturbed by any individual "slice." We've lost the greater part of our firearms rights that way, for example.
Do we ever learn? Good question. I have no answer. It's possible that some learn, while others continue on in indifference, and still others shout down the "learners" for daring to oppose "the greater good." The dynamics of creeping totalitarianism aren't understood at the detail level, only end-to-end.