Jack is correct. What happened today at the Supreme Court was not an ending. It was a calibration. Autocracies do not consolidate power through single decisive moments — they consolidate it by measuring the distance between what they do and how much resistance follows. Each ruling that produces outrage but no sustained action teaches the next ruling what it can afford to do. This is not a theory. It is a documented pattern. The Compromise of 1877 did not end Reconstruction in a day. It ended it by demonstrating, incrementally, that the federal government would not pay the cost of enforcement. The Court learned that lesson. It has not forgotten it.
Jack is correct. What happened today at the Supreme Court was not an ending. It was a calibration. Autocracies do not consolidate power through single decisive moments — they consolidate it by measuring the distance between what they do and how much resistance follows. Each ruling that produces outrage but no sustained action teaches the next ruling what it can afford to do. This is not a theory. It is a documented pattern. The Compromise of 1877 did not end Reconstruction in a day. It ended it by demonstrating, incrementally, that the federal government would not pay the cost of enforcement. The Court learned that lesson. It has not forgotten it.
Thank you for that reminder! Time to move forward more determined!
A shattered Glass is much more sharp. And now you know exactly who your friends are. - TS, Cancelled
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This news today just shattered me. Thanks for helping me pick myself back up.
Wow, you put that out there with perfect words. Thank you for the wisdom and motivation!