Civil Disobedience not a good tool for conservatives

In the post under, Lex notes that the primary way to affect change in a democracy – political activism - is slipping away.  Mountains of money from the well connected, voter fraud, one party cronyism among the so-called two parties, the willingness of the elected ruling class to use the levers of the people’s government to suppress the people and a compliant one party lapdog media all conspire to make one think that his vote just doesn’t count for much anymore.

Once the average person arrives at the conclusion that voting just puts one of two total douche bags into office the next alternative to get the attention of the ruling is to make them uncomfortable in office.  How do you accomplish that?  Well, civil disobedience is a good tool.  The civil rights movement made Demo-Dopes, the real racists in America, squirm during the 60s and 70s.  Some WWII vets made them squirm again recently in Washington D.C. when they decided to cross Barrycades erected to keep them from open-air memorials that they paid for and were erected to honor them.

What did we learn from that exercise?  First, we learned that government stooges know what side their bread is buttered on.  The park rangers, who are paid with our money, dutifully followed the bureaucrat’s orders to lock us out of our memorials.  Just following orders you see - sort of like lining up at the airport to be radiated.  The lapdog media dutifully ignored the story that the government spent more money that supposedly was unavailable to lock the memorials down than just maintain their less expensive status quo.  But orders are orders.  It matters not how ridiculous those orders are.

Next, we know that there has been an on going effort by HHS to buy up all the ammo in America and arm and equip every branch of the federal government and local police as if they might have to clear their city block by block by force.  Remember Boston?  Boston strong?  Eh, no.  Since when do the “strong” shelter in place, cowering while TWO Islamo-Terror-Fascist roam free?  How “strong” are you if allow YOUR police to race to and fro across YOUR streets - while you hide under the bed sheets?  Did you see the police in full tactical combat gear driving tactical vehicles more suited for Fallujha than any US city?  How “strong” are you if you let the police conduct house to house warrantless searches of entire blocks of Boston?  What would happen if you said, “Hell no.  Get a warrant or get out.”  T-R-O-U-B-L-E that’s what.  So civil disobedience may have very serious consequences given the cluelessness of unelected police authorities.  It is always easier to comply with authority, particularly when they are very well armed, than demonstrate the slightest bit of disobedience for that authority.

But the biggest problem with civil disobedience for us is that most conservatives are by and large respectful of the law.  As such we tend to follow even asinine laws and regulations.  Shelter in place.  Yes sir.  Let us search your home.  Yes sir.  We line up like cattle at air ports to be exposed to possibly cancer causing full body x-ray scanners.  Every 10 years when the government asks us 175 questions about our selves, our home, our job, our families, to take a census – which requires one question – most of us dutifully fill out the questionnaire.  When we try to honestly fill out a tax return, we are frustrated to the point we’re willing to pay someone else $150 bucks to fill out the stupid government forms and get it correct – or at least correct enough not raise suspicion with the most ruthless cutthroat organization in OUR government, the IRS.

We try to be lawful citizens.  That’s probably the biggest obstacle to using this tool to get the attention of OUR ruling class. Were there a movement for every tax paying citizen to withhold $10 of their tax obligation every year until congress made themselves subject to the same onerous laws that they force on the rest of us, a totally reasonable demand to my way of thinking, how many of us would join the movement?