Conservative *Layers*
we got ‘em, too*
Yanno, there’s more to the idea ”...the consent of the governed" than “a political theory wherein a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when derived from the people.”
It’s also an observation of fact. Consider it in light of this:
Oh how we burned in the prison camps, later thinking: what would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.
*only ours ain’t usually obfuscatory in purpose
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