Idek Idehen

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Stay or go? Witness the collapse of America, or leave and begin again? Overdosing on analyses, histories, and worry. Grateful for your wonderful distractions.
Show threadIdek IdehenNov 21, 2024
Original source still active
https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/
The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025

How an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it

The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025
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Also, audiobook format on YouTube and Archive.org

#authoritarianism #FakeNews #facism

https://archive.org/details/the-authoritarians_by-bob-altemeyer

Idek IdehenNov 21, 2024

The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 catalogs the seven basic tactics used by authoritarian leaders to undermine democracy around the world:

▪ Politicizing Independent Institutions
▪ Spreading Disinformation
▪ Aggrandizing Executive Power and
Undermining Checks & Balances
▪ Quashing dissent
▪ Marginalizing Vulnerable Communities
▪ Corrupting Elections
▪ Stoking Violence

Free PDF guide produced by nonprofit Protect Democracy, 2024

https://archive.org/details/the-authoritarian-playbook-for-2025

The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 : Protect Democracy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Democracy in America64% of Americans agree that democracy is in crisis and at risk of failing.🔹 The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025is a publication which...

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Idek IdehenNov 21, 2024

Why do people fall for rubbish news & follow despicable leaders? The late Canadian research professor Bob Altemeyer identified personalities of authoritarian followers. His casual book for general audiences, THE AUTHORITARIANS, was written at the suggestion of John W. Dean, author of CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. The two co-wrote AUTHORITARIAN NIGHTMARE re: Trump followers.

Free #books and articles on his site
https://theauthoritarians.org/

The Authoritarians

Idek IdehenNov 21, 2024
Uncle DukeNov 20, 2024
I don’t think it will all fit in there.
Idek IdehenNov 20, 2024

Two resources for surviving an #authoritarian regime

1. Book: ON TYRANNY, by Timothy Snyder
https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny
Short, succinct, draws advice from history

2. Article: "The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide"
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/
Written by Europeans who have experienced it recently

Please chime in with other resources.

#authoritarianism #2025 #booktodon #nonfiction

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder - Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Idek IdehenNov 18, 2024
Idek IdehenJun 14, 2024

Sure to make you smile, might even make your day!

https://youtu.be/JQL25_hoQ1k?si=XL9KIYky87dna5No
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7 Spectacular Moths in Slow Motion!

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