Re: A prediction about the Presidential campaign

On Feb 4, 11:44�pm, David Friedman .

By mine, it becomes the government at the point when the people in the
neighborhood start accepting its exactions as normal, rather than as
things to be accepted only when the cost of an act of resistance is very
high.


What about the German Government in occupied Europe during WWII? I
think that most locals considered it morally indistinguishable from a
mugger, but still a government.

Will McLean
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