🥹 Millions of Americans are coming together on this #NoKings Day to reject authoritarian overreach, defend democracy, and stand up for their communities.

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

#Auspol #Dutton #PeterDutton