One: as Boetie, Hume, Mises, Rothbard, and Shaffer have shown, the state always depends on at least the tacit consent of the governed. When that consent weakens, even the biggest, richest, most powerful state in history trembles. And look, as Kevin Zeese points out today, at the shrinking presidency. One day he’s the arrogant Ruler of the Free World (and maybe the Solar System); the next he is a little coward hiding out in his compound. Two, even the state’s conservative smearbund is impotent when such a moment arrives. All of them–FOX, Limbaugh, Drudge, Goldberg, etc.–have been hurling the nastiest … Continue reading Some Lessons of Cindy Sheehan