Judge blocks Trump effort to pull election funding for states that don't adjust voting forms

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14. Regarding this -

Yes, but what I was asking was how many of the people who remained were so passive as to allow their entire society to be destroyed and decided that the best thing to do is to just watch it happen. How many tried to justify it even as the goons were kicking in their own door? That was what I was pondering. Just how much what happened during WWII could have been stopped if the locals had just felt more motivated to do something as opposed to just sitting there? And, why did that happen? Were they bought off? Were they being so oppressed that they felt there was nothing to be done? Just what led to a country becoming the mot evil place on the planet (for a time)? And, why did we not learn from it? (Don't answer that one, I already know why.)

The vast majority of humanity are not "activists". When it comes to situations like this, they become extremely risk-averse and try to "fly under the radar" for as long as they can. There is that quote often posted here, from Martin Niemöller, that said -

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Societies that go through this type of thing, do eventually have an upheaval, but the time interval for when that finally happens, can vary, all while the carnage continues in the interim.

And regarding those Outerbanks hurricanes - which were almost "common" for awhile, although I think climate change has changed the paths of those, we would get the remnants of those as they crawled up the coast and hopped the jetstream headed to the northeast (and eventually to the UK).

That song "Hurricane" from Hamilton was the prelude to the public revelation and humiliation heaped on him regarding his dalliances with the wife of a huckster "James Reynolds" (which happened right here in Philly right near where I used to work...lol). Reynolds extorted Hamilton to "keep it quiet", but the scheme was discovered and used as fodder by Madison, Jefferson, and Burr to knock Hamilton down a few notches. Hamilton then wrote up and distributed a "pamphlet" explaining the whole thing to exonerate himself - "The Reynolds Pamphlet" -



He kept a ledger record of every payment he made, for what, and why, to establish it wasn't coming from government funds.