[Mick]

None of this surprises me much.  People are both social and creatures of habit.  Neither enforced solitude, radical behavioral change, nor enforced economic destruction has much appeal for the average person, whatever the risks.

Yes, this describes a failure of leadership. How many times did you want to run gassers in practice?  How many times did you want to run the same play 50 times?  Without anyone taking the reins to instill leadership over a group, you end up with the situation you describe, Mick.

But don't try to insinuate we are ungovernable as a people. We are only ungovernable when we aren't governed.

I think we're a lot less governable than you think we are.  And I don't think we toe the line in the way that certain other countries do.  We were founded in governmental skepticism.  We lionize the individual.  Across the world, "cowboy" is a slur, a term of opprobrium.  In the good ol' U. S. of A., it's a term to be admired.  America venerates the individual effort, often over the dictates of an uncaring and unknowing state.  It's why President Knucklehead gets so much mileage out of "deep state."  It's why Governor Handsome says "If we don't start reducing the barriers to societal and economic return, the people will do so unilaterally."

We're governable, to a point.  Ask the Fascist Anti-Fascist Antifa how governable we are.  Or the owners of 300 million guns, take your pick.  Or the looters or the protestors or the founders/citizens of C.H.A.D. who are apparently unopposed and untroubled by authority.  In other countries, all of those people and groups would be staring down the barrel of a gun.  Not this one, where resistance to police and authority are sacrosanct.

[Mick]

None of this surprises me much.  People are both social and creatures of habit.  Neither enforced solitude, radical behavioral change, nor enforced economic destruction has much appeal for the average person, whatever the risks.

Yes, this describes a failure of leadership. How many times did you want to run gassers in practice?  How many times did you want to run the same play 50 times?  Without anyone taking the reins to instill leadership over a group, you end up with the situation you describe, Mick.

But don't try to insinuate we are ungovernable as a people. We are only ungovernable when we aren't governed.

I think we're a lot less governable than you think we are.  And I don't think we toe the line in the way that certain other countries do.  We were founded in governmental skepticism.  We lionize the individual.  Across the world, "cowboy" is a slur, a term of opprobrium.  In the good ol' U. S. of A., it's a term to be admired.  America venerates the individual effort, often over the dictates of an uncaring and unknowing state.  It's why President Knucklehead gets so much mileage out of "deep state."  It's why Governor Handsome says "If we don't start reducing the barriers to societal and economic return, the people will do so unilaterally."

We're governable, to a point.  Ask the Fascist Anti-Fascist Antifa how governable we are.  Or the owners of 300 million guns, take your pick.  Or the looters or the protestors or the founders/citizens of C.H.A.D. who are apparently unopposed and untroubled by authority.  In other countries, all of those people and groups would be staring down the barrel of a gun.  Not this one, where resistance to police and authority are sacrosanct.