Shared from a friend…
How much is “enough” is dependent upon each persons perception. What might be too much to you isn’t going to be too much to someone else. We as a society have become soft, we’re way too willing to accept governmental/cultural intrusions as long as we have plenty of beer to drink, chips to eat, and Kardashians to watch. I believe the historical term that applies here is “Bread and Circuses.”
A lot of people have a serious misunderstanding of our first revolutionary war. Most people think it started because Redcoats shot some people in Boston, so everyone grabbed their squirrel rifle and headed to Lexington. In reality, that revolution was decades in the making. It was a series of actions on the part of the British government that, eventually, pissed off enough people that they were willing to fight. Even then, historical consensus is that the majority of the American people did not support Amerexit. I’ve read that as little as 1/3rd of the population actually supported the rebellion when it started. That means that 2/3rds of the people in the colonies were either apathetic about the rebellion, or outright opposed it. In our Civil War, less than half the people in the North, at least initially, supported the war. It was almost 4 months from the time South Carolina seceded until the actual “shootin’ war” started. The country was falling apart for 4 months, and nobody, at least not a large number of people, in the North seemed to care. Look at Lincoln’s 64 reelection, he only garnered 55% of the vote. Now yes, that’s a majority, but definitely not an overwhelming majority…especially considering the war was very much going in the North’s favor at that point.
It doesn’t take a majority of people to overthrow a government. History shows that a minority, if dedicated enough, can do it. The thing that will most likely spark an actual war war is economic turmoil. Most governments have been overthrown, by their own people I mean, because of economic chaos than any other reason. Wait until hyperinflation…caused by all this phony money they keep creating…erodes people’s ability to put food on the table. Wait until the world dumps the dollar for the yuan, at which point our dollar bills will become nothing more than fancy toilet paper. The only question then is who best uses the turmoil to their benefit…the left or the right. Recent history, the last century or so, shows it to be the left.
