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The irrational COVID regime is driving
many Americans to a healthy noncompliance

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/15/2021 12:55:10 AM

If regular democracy isn’t doing so well, maybe it’s time to fall back on “Irish Democracy.” That’s what Yale political scientist James Scott calls the passive resistance of a society that doesn’t like what its rulers are doing to it. In his book “Two Cheers for ­Anarchy,” he writes, “One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Come And Take It 10/15/2021 1:01:24 AM (No. 945974)
I prefer an old fashioned American republic. Asks our former British rulers how we dealt with tyranny.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: wilarrbie 10/15/2021 2:07:08 AM (No. 946000)
Pretty sure that's what the F*JoeBiden chant is all about, but it feels like they have exactly the same opinion right back at us. And THEY have all the power.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/15/2021 3:04:31 AM (No. 946020)
I am ready for a lot more active noncompliance. I think the enough marker has long been passed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Timber Queen 10/15/2021 3:06:01 AM (No. 946021)
My paternal grandmother was Irish and told stories of her father facing signs that read, "No Dogs or Irishmen" and "No Irish Need Apply". In grade school I was taught by the Irish Sisters of Charity, with the majority of our nuns coming from Ireland. I grew up on stories of the Potato Famine, and the "American Wakes" for the folks making the voyage to the United States because they would never be seen again - just as in death. I heard stories of the Easter Rebellion, brave resistance, public disdain for authority and a general temperament of being ungovernable. The sisters' teachings were a double-edged sword for them. Having learned of noble resistance, as individuals and as a class, we often tested the boundaries of insolence. Irish Democracy is a way of life for me. I also learned how to wield Irish wit; the ability to tell someone to go to hell and they thank you for it. I've always kept up my skills, but the DemPanic has honed and sharpened them. These days I'm singing to myself that old Judy Garland hit, "I Don't Care!" Up the Irish! Up the Rebellion! F Joe Biden!
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