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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBRILLIANT analysis of the takeover of authoritarianism/fascism -and a dire warning for the USA !!
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A Conversation with Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps.
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Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)A very disturbing trend.
Though this movement did not begin with trump, I see him as its global leader. Even when he's out of office, he'll still be the face of 21st century fascism.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And the author is speaking from her experience in Turkey.. odd that, eh !
You are probably right abut trump...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)GOTV. Donate.
Taking to the streets is what people who don't have the power of a real VOTE have to do: They're threatening to become violent and topple their regimes to return power to the people via the VOTE.
Protests are fine as long as they're promises to VOTE as if our VOTE depends on it. Because it does.
44 days to Iowa.
318 days to restabilizing and strengthening our democracy.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)our last sovereign national election. But I don't think it was. 2020 could be, but even a massive theft there might be their last instead.
If our sovereignty was destroyed, though, don't for a moment imagine that protests would change a thing. Dissident left and Democratic protests currently only strengthen the resolve of the right and grow worry in most others about civil unrest and support for stopping it. And all faux votes in support would be counted and multiplied. If our power was actually gone, it'd take decades, much building of resistance through suffering, much national decline, and many lives to restore.
Many people are naturally happier with authoritarian governments and would behave and approve oppression of those who don't stay in line. And for those who caused trouble, the water and power could always be cut off and roads closed. We're not in 1776 colonial America any more. Hard on people in those areas who thought supporting authoritarian government meant it'd support them, but oh well. What'd a few thousand deaths and arrests here and there be to a nation of 330,000,000 beyond a necessary lesson and keeping of the peace?
VOTE!