When I was a boy & I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'The Supreme Court has repeatedly found that the police have no duty to protect you. So stay strapped or get clapped.'
The briliant idea that we give a small group of people the right to kidnap, steal from & kill us, so that we can be "protected" from people who kidnap, steal from & kill us.
NOUN ― The levying of tax ― "The progressive nature of taxation"
Levy ― VERB ― Impose (a tax, fee or fine) ― "A raw tax could be levied on industry to pay for clearing up contaminated land"
Impose ― VERB ― Force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) to be accepted or put in place. ― "The decision was theirs & was not imposed on them by others"
Force ― NOUN ― Coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence. ― "They ruled by law & not by force"
(noun) A person who accepts the political narrative of the day unquestionably; consumes mainstream media like it was 1980 & is prone to submissiveness, outbursts of irrational fear & public shaming of free-thinkers.