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http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/02/20/pushback/
Group guilt isn’t selling as well as it once did. And the stock people take in individual responsibility seems to be increasing.
Perhaps because the orbit of liberty has constricted so dramatically –
especially during the past 10 years. Instead of gradually increasing
the temperature so that the frog doesn’t notice he’s being boiled alive
until it’s too late for him to hop out of the pot, they’ve cranked up
the heat suddenly – and the frogs are now aware of what’s happening to them.
And beginning to hop…
It is no hard think to understand that the average person – merely
trying to live his life – is growing weary of being hassled at every
turn, treated as a presumptively guilty criminal by authorities that
seem unable to recognize, much less respect, any limits to
their power. Just as the catcall, “you must be racist” is losing its
ability to cow legitimate criticism of such things as open-ended
entitlement programs that incentivize multi-generational poverty, so
also the tiresome bleats about “safety” and “security” have grown really tiresome. And the frayed edges are beginning to show.
Group guilt isn’t selling as well as it once did. And the stock people take in individual responsibility seems to be increasing.
Perhaps because the orbit of liberty has constricted so dramatically –
especially during the past 10 years. Instead of gradually increasing
the temperature so that the frog doesn’t notice he’s being boiled alive
until it’s too late for him to hop out of the pot, they’ve cranked up
the heat suddenly – and the frogs are now aware of what’s happening to them.
And beginning to hop…
It is no hard think to understand that the average person – merely
trying to live his life – is growing weary of being hassled at every
turn, treated as a presumptively guilty criminal by authorities that
seem unable to recognize, much less respect, any limits to
their power. Just as the catcall, “you must be racist” is losing its
ability to cow legitimate criticism of such things as open-ended
entitlement programs that incentivize multi-generational poverty, so
also the tiresome bleats about “safety” and “security” have grown really tiresome. And the frayed edges are beginning to show.