They say never ask a woman her age... never ask a man his salary... and never ask a Democrat how 1265 people are registered to vote from a single vacant lot.
Tyranny is a dial, not a switch.
The frog gets boiled by degrees.
They push us toward a slippery slope, not a sheer cliff.
The normalisation of deviance is a process.
Their foot gets in the door before their clenched, red fist.
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.”
― Tom Waits