Thus, the solution of ‘go up to the first truck and start removing it and see what happens’ does not get implemented. Instead, we have other measures.
You could imagine something similar for every totalitarian government that faces inconvenient protests. Theoretically, you could just go and imprison one person after another.
The problem is that this is likely going to inflame the protests.
Even their original plan was to blockade the capital until vaccine mandates were lifted, and again this does not work at all since the pro-mandate side can do the same thing and also we can’t have policy determined by who can rally larger groups of people.
Those trucker blockages are personally a quite costly signal as a trucker risks losing their livelihood with them. It’s not easy for the pro-mandate side to just do the same thing.
Civil liberties matter and the amount people are willing to sacrifice when you push them into a corner (such as telling unvaccinated truckers that they aren’t allowed to work) is higher than the amount that the average person who doesn’t care about civil liberties is willing to pay.
You could imagine something similar for every totalitarian government that faces inconvenient protests. Theoretically, you could just go and imprison one person after another.
The problem is that this is likely going to inflame the protests.
Those trucker blockages are personally a quite costly signal as a trucker risks losing their livelihood with them. It’s not easy for the pro-mandate side to just do the same thing.
Civil liberties matter and the amount people are willing to sacrifice when you push them into a corner (such as telling unvaccinated truckers that they aren’t allowed to work) is higher than the amount that the average person who doesn’t care about civil liberties is willing to pay.
impression?
Should have been imprison, I’m not sure how the other word got there.