Pushback can still work. However IMHO we must be alert to the next ploy. Those petty tyrants who lust after power will not be easily deterred now that they have had a taste of it.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."- Fredric Bastiat
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
Pushback can still work. However IMHO we must be alert to the next ploy. Those petty tyrants who lust after power will not be easily deterred now that they have had a taste of it.