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- May 27, 2020
I'm going to grab this one as an example, but everyone who keeps saying that the Right needs to rise up would do well to keep the following in mind:Conservatives just like to assume good faith when no such assumption is warranted. It's partly faith in humanity, but it's also a sad devotion to the status quo that holds them back from striking when they should.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America said:Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The American Revolution did not kick off overnight, it was a long buildup of tensions and animosity, damned near a century-long, in fact. They had their faggots who said that nothing was ever going to happen back then, too. They had long discussions in the taverns over wither they should seek independence or simply proper British citizenship in the same way we debate restoring the Constitution or following Daddy Hitler's example. The Right isn't going to rise up and strike simply because it is an advantageous time to do so, they are going to wait until every other option has been taken off the table in the admittedly vain hope that maybe, just maybe, this trainwreck can be averted.