Understood. But let’s face it, the modern political process doesn’t work for entrepreneurs. If they’re not willing to make a stand, not even a stand alongside the employees who support them, not even a short amount of down time to make a point, then they will deserve the consequences.

Strikes are easy when everyone is an employee. The U.S. has a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of business owners who cannot just strike. By the time the Poles struck, they had been beaten down for generations. Property rights didn’t exist and they had been living in a hard tyranny for decades. And even then, Poland is and was a smaller country.

Collusion is virtually impossible to achieve. Just try getting hundreds of millions of people to do one thing at the same time at great expense to themselves. Personally, I can’t strike without permanently shutting down my business and firing everyone who works for me because I have legal obligations to a national exchange that I must meet every single day. How many other business owners have contractual obligations they must fulfill? How many people would destroy their lives for a day of protest? In the Eastern bloc, lives were already in shambles. There were no entrepreneurs who would lose their businesses. There was nothing left to lose.

I think you have a rather more romantic view of this struggle than is warranted.

LOL!!!

where has this been done? I’m not necessarily disagreeing that it has, I just can’t think of where.

I’m pretty sure the political class is already giving slavery a try now. They’re boiling the frog slowly (recently they’ve turned up the heat, but they’re trying to close the lid).

leaving the country won’t help you either. Besides North Korea, the U.S. is the only country that taxes based on citizenship rather than on residency. Giving up your U.S. citizenship can be as difficult as giving up a Soviet citizenship. We’re already a soft tyranny. It’s a small jump to a hard tyranny. A hard tyranny can last forever. If you think it’s bad now, just wait.

Re; Fascism; Have been since WWI, and arguably since the Civil War.
Re; Socialism; Irrelevant, as it doesn’t really work. Never has, never will.
Re; The Constitution; Is Propaganda. Has been since day one. The “Rule of Law” is shorthand for the “Rule of Those Who Write the Laws”.

What I meant is that we’ll be past the tipping point of socialism and fascism. If this legislation passes, it pretty much renders the constitution moot. There will be no hard, sharp lesson (the sort that whacked us in the 70′s) from which we’ll recover.

Basically you are arguing to go back to the days where you work a 12 hour day, a seven day week, no work place safety standards, no right of dissent and have no other options. You are ignorant of history and you are impressionable and they know that. They’ve convinced you that you are a defender of liberty as you drive down their privately owned roads to serfdom.

You think you fight the good fight but if you are a typical middle class working person you’re selling off your childrens future to be controlled by wealthy elites.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

More-dork!!

Wow, this Muirdork thing shouldn’t be taken seriously. He spends too much time with Barney Frank.

I’m completely depressed about what’s going on. Libertarians are losing the culture war. However, if libertarian beliefs are part of your core fabric, then you have to strive to find a place you can be free. Would you really be less miserable for the next 80 years if you threw in the towel and joined in something you knew to be wrong?