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James Stoner's avatar

Excellent. I appreciate the reference to the US Inspector Generals fired by Trump in the first days. It was a clear signal for the upcoming lawlessness.

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Gary Fletcher's avatar

So heartening!

And such a dilemma. Always the worry that we have to fight authoritarians with one hand tied behind our backs, yet the concern that if we use the worst of the authoritarian methods, the authoritarians do, in effect, win.

Credit to Zelesnky for backing away from temptation.

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Kumara Republic's avatar

By accident or design, Yeltsin bungled Russia's post-Soviet democratic transition. He topped it off with his personal anointment of Putin as his successor.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

MSM(mainstream media) Missing the Nazi(Authoritarian) Playbook

It’s business as usual at MSM Just regurgitate to its audience what Cheeto said, what federal legislators said, recount the Gaza genocide and call it good The network getting close to calling the Nazi regime out for what it’s doing is MSNBC but even that network misses the point

Bernie Sanders and AOC called it the Oligarchy Protest Tour but the undercurrent of that tour is that the authoritarian takeover of the government is led by Cheeto BUT CHEETO IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE AUTHORITARIAN ICEBERG THE AMERICAN OLIGARCHY IS THE ICEBERG ITSELF And MSM and nonMSM eg Substack needs to use this in the context of news coverage

This is why there is such catering by the Nazis to give enormous financial favors to the top 5% of the electorate The Nazis have decided that the American people in this democracy don’t count and that the wealthy need to control the country Cheeto in his narcissistic way sees that he is the WAY and that his supporting oligarchy will

We see what has happened in the Authoritarian Deep South and how the voters have been disenfranchised so that the wealthy and well placed White Southerners have controlled the political narrative It seems like the Nazis are taking this Southern model nationwide by disenfranchising voters nationally

The key then is how do we the electorate respond to this oligarchic authoritarian takeover That’s for another time but it seems like Indivisible has its finger on the authoritarian pulse One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism is worthwhile looking at

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