THEY ARE UNDERMINING THEIR AUTHORITY.

At the beginning of the War, Field Marshal William Slim issued the following instructions to his officers.  "I tell you as officers, that you will not eat, sleep, smoke, sit down, or lie down until your soldiers have had a chance to do these things. If you hold to this, they will follow you to the ends of the earth, if you do not, will break you in front of your regiments."  That seems like a simple instruction, and yet, as the compiler of those quotes notes, "Do not be a hypocrite. If you expect the soldiers to meet a certain standard, ensure you exceed it."

There are more than a few state governors who have failed, miserably, at executing that simple task.

The editorial board of New York's Post is taking names.

[S]anctimony, we’d argue, is a peculiarly progressive vice: These politicians are certain they not only know better than the little people, but that they have a moral right to dictate detailed choices to struggling business owners, desperate single moms and everyone else facing dire dilemmas as they balance safety and keeping life ­together.

We are seeing more civil disobedience, like that bar protest in Staten Island, precisely because Democrats are not practicing what they preach.

It’s that arrogance that leads you to make a mockery of a threat that has killed more than 1.5 million, and then rub it in the faces of the most vulnerable.

The article includes a rogues' gallery of lockdown hypocrites.

Lori Lightfoot merits a brief mention.

Gretchen Whitmer does not.  Perhaps that's because the Post is a coastal paper, and they have trouble placing Michigan on a map.

There is no William Slim to cashier any of these people, but the public have a say.  "If you always lead by your example, train your troops, take care of soldiers, maintain both your equipment and your integrity, and develop yourself as a professional, those matters will take care of themselves."

If you do not, those matters will also take care of themselves.

With ordinary citizens and business owners eager to defy authorities, and local law enforcement saying in no uncertain terms that they will not spend time and resources enforcing the ridiculous rules of governors and mayors, a revolution is in the offing. Not necessarily a shooting war, but a withholding of consent to be governed.

Rick Moran concludes, "Nothing is working to get people to obey."  We'll turn to that in a day or so.