Extremely chilling text! If you are in the US you absolutely have to read the whole thing, if you are not you should, too. 👇🏼
The odds that we can vote our way out of this in four years seems implausible as well. In competitive autocracies (like ours is becoming),
#elections are used as a popular anesthetic. If you give people the false hope that they can change things at the ballot box, they won’t rise up. They live in a perpetual state of hoping “maybe next time.” The
#GOP learned this from
#Hungary, where
#Orban’s Fidez party continually employs this trick. So do the autocratic regimes in Venezuela, Belarus, and elsewhere:
#Election wins are rigged, but seem just close enough to keep people from revolting.
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Very rarely has a country that has descended this far into #autocracy recovered without outside intervention (like, say, the combined allied armies fighting all the way to your capitol). Most warning signs of impending
#genocide are here. I know I’m a pessimist. But, as Jewish producer Billy Wilder once said in 1945, “The optimists all died in the gas chambers. The pessimists have pools in Beverly Hills.” This brutal observation reveals a truth: when it comes to the threat of genocide, listen to the intellectuals … and the pessimists.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
#DonaldTrump #Fascism #Trump #Autocracy
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