Politeness shouldn't be taken as weakness and those hosers made the world proud.If mandates would have been forced nationally (illegally, of course, because it falls under state law), it would have been a shitshow. The US government is too afraid of its giant population of heavily armed citizens, having around 20 millions vets alone. They've done simulations of domestic warfare and found something like 75% of active military would desert to protect their families and neighborhoods. The number may be off, I read it in some war college book awile back, but it was an overwhelming majority.