(07-11-2023, 01:13 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-11-2023, 12:03 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I've come to this conclusion today reluctantly and soberly after more than 100 years of encroaching and increasingly tyrannical government. You've accepted the soft chains of distraction slavery, so enjoy your scraps.

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If Sam Adams were alive today he'd feel as I do, that our Country traded freedom for a royalist administrative state from which we need to sever our bond. Franklin wasn't kidding when he said, "If you can keep it."

Maybe.  That's not how history works though.  He would have experienced 20th and 21st century life, so who knows what conclusions he came to.  It's not so remarkable that Sam Adams said what he said.  Every age has had people speaking against the elites.  What's remarkable is that what he was saying made sense to enough of the masses and caused them to think it was better to risk their lives in battle than accept the status quo.  The same message makes sense to very few people today because we have taxation with representation, rather than without.