Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous
In the winter of 1777 and ’78, our country was in the midst of the Revolutionary War, and George Washington and his troops were enduring bitter hardship at Valley Forge. The men were dying from lack of food and clothes, and morale was low.
Even though Robert Mueller is repeatedly indicting former Trump associates for lying to the government — a “process crime” – James Comey just gave testimony to Congress in which he lied hundreds of times. Yet nothing has happened to James Comey (yet).