A very serious question.....

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by NomadScribe

I just love how the underlying notion to the original question is that there is a "tyranny" to overcome in the United States.

sigh.

Please use a dictionary before using big words. If one is rather suddenly worried about tyranny now, they might as well buck up and just settle for complaining for the rest of their life.

I don't know what dictionary your looking at NomadScribe, but my dictionary defines tyranny as:

absolutism: dominance through threat of punishment and violence

I'd say that about covers it.

20yrsinBranson

[NomadScribe]

Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson

I don't know what dictionary your looking at NomadScribe, but my dictionary defines tyranny as:

absolutism: dominance through threat of punishment and violence

I'd say that about covers it.

20yrsinBranson

yup, I get the definition.

I just don't see a threat of tyranny in the USA (if that's what your post implied). We disagree, it's ok.

I can think of some other countries on Earth where tyranny is a real and rather frightening threat. The USA is not one of them.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by NomadScribe

I just love how the underlying notion to the original question is that there is a "tyranny" to overcome in the United States.

sigh.

Please use a dictionary before using big words. If one is rather suddenly worried about tyranny now, they might as well buck up and just settle for complaining for the rest of their life.

Not if there really is tyranny here. In every country I've ever been to where there was authentic tyranny, complaining publicly would result in someone knocking on your door....or your head.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson

I don't know what dictionary your looking at NomadScribe, but my dictionary defines tyranny as:

absolutism: dominance through threat of punishment and violence

I'd say that about covers it.

20yrsinBranson

By that definition, the law itself is a form of tyranny which, I suppose, it is on some level. The difference is that unlike REAL tyranny, we need the law.

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by NomadScribe

yup, I get the definition.

I just don't see a threat of tyranny in the USA (if that's what your post implied). We disagree, it's ok.

I can think of some other countries on Earth where tyranny is a real and rather frightening threat. The USA is not one of them.

This administration is nibbling dangerously close to the edges. We have seen real signs of a thugocracy in the works, Chicago style, if you will, under this administration specifically.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

This administration is nibbling dangerously close to the edges. We have seen real signs of a thugocracy in the works, Chicago style, if you will, under this administration specifically.

Really? Where and when? Examples, please.

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by NomadScribe

I can think of some other countries on Earth where tyranny is a real and rather frightening threat. The USA is not one of them.

Forgive me the incredibly strange analogy here.....

but that is like saying that the guy who slipped and fell through the ice and was underwater for 10 minutes and is in a coma and has life-threatening brain damage didn't drown.

No, TECHNICALLY he did not drown but he's just as bad off as if he had.

TEHCNICALLY, we don't have the textbook definition of tyranny...but the country is definitely in a coma and looking at some pretty serious brain damage....IYKQIM.

20yrsinBranson