What do you suggest the elites do Evan? Seriously. Ideas would be good right now. I'd get behind a good idea to do more. But what are our options?
“Support for authoritarian leadership is concentrating in the Republican Party, and its elites are doing little to push back. In our highly polarized two-party system, this poses the risk that...partisan conflict could become a battle over democracy...”https://nyti.ms/2GvWrN0
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Battle literally.,I will fight to the death to keep this country from becoming an authoritarian dictatorship, I come from a generational military family and I know they feel the same.
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The difficulty lies in recognizing it when it happens. Hitler leveraged the Reischtag fire to consolidate power among his cabinet. At the time, many felt this was necessary to ensure the security of Germany. Trump only needs a major terror event to occur to do the same in the US.
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The GOP has been engaged in anti-democratic voter suppression for decades. This battle for American democracy has been going on a long time, and in recent years the pro-democracy forces have been losing badly.
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the rep are owned by fascist oligarchs....they no longer even pretend to serve the people...their job is to destroy democracy for their owners ...we must switch paradigms and own this as reality instead of thinking they are misguidedpic.twitter.com/fdPvl4HsGR
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Could become a battle for Democracy? It's been a battle for Democracy since the Inauguration, and we're running out of time.
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The GOP's slide into authoritarianism started under Gingrich--once the loyal opposition was redefined as un-American traitors, keeping power by any means--even conspiracy with foreign powers--was normalized.
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