Pretty Sure The Coup Was Successful

[Hortensis]

14. Oh, brother. Dystopian reactionaries and complainers never created a single right.

Or, as we're seeing, fought determinedly to protect and would never accept their being taken away.

Nothing new here. Those with genuine COMMITMENT to their principles combined with the guts to keep fighting have always been the ones who've secured everything for all the rest.

You guys do realize that those who have become so demoralized that they mostly agree with messages like this then have a certain emotional interest in them turning out to be right? The more demoralized, presumably the satisfying the slide. And there's no shortage of these messages.

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things."

Still true 2500 years later.