“‘A Croc sandal stamping on a human face forever?’ Who could credit such a tyranny, even if it were true?”

We’ve entered into an age of soft tyranny. For a society under the sway of political correctness and the worship of multiculturalism, tyranny per se isn’t so bad, it’s just the wrong kind of tyranny that merits opprobrium, the brutal kind like, say, Iran’s. Evidently, the Iranian tyrants just don’t know how to do tyranny properly.

How long our soft tyranny will stay soft, who knows? But, barring some truly dire eventuality, Americans would probably tolerate a soft tyranny indefinitely. I seriously doubt that we Americans – although certainly there are lots of exceptions, as demonstrated here at BC – but on the whole and in the main, I doubt that we can countenance any resolute passion like, “Give me liberty or give me death,” or an idea like, “The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots.” Such sentiments are not for people like us. The current state of affairs would not be half so distressing if this was not true.