In March of 1766, as Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson surveyed resistance to the Stamp Act in the colony he governed, ignorance prevailed. Throughout the colonies, he wrote, “the people are absolutely without the use of reason.” They gibbered and babbled their mindless opposition, incoherent and senseless, wholly incapable of understanding the thoughtful actions of their betters in government. The Stamp Act was obvious, a perfectly sensible solution to a set of clear problems – but try telling that to the idiots in the street.
Revanchism is bad. Elitism is bad. Revanchist elites have now driven America to its third civil war -- a cold war between a Maoist, printing press protected class and the rest of us.
The English, ruling by greatly time-delayed remote control from London, had much more excuse for their detachment from the colonials than our federal government does today.
Revanchism is bad. Elitism is bad. Revanchist elites have now driven America to its third civil war -- a cold war between a Maoist, printing press protected class and the rest of us.
The English, ruling by greatly time-delayed remote control from London, had much more excuse for their detachment from the colonials than our federal government does today.