Authoritarianism is surging. Can liberal democracy fight back?

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“We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
 
The facts are cold! The Republicans are out-numbered.

It's been that way for several presidential elections now.

The Republicans know this because they cannot even win the popular vote anymore.

So, even though they do everything they can at the STATE LEVEL to suppress democratic votes, they realize they have to cheat to win elections now.

DEMOCRACY is seen as a conflict of interest. They hate democracy now. Democracy don't work for Republicans anymore!
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
The facts are cold! The Republicans are out-numbered.

It's been that way for several presidential elections now.

The Republicans know this because they cannot even win the popular vote anymore.

So, even though they do everything they can at the STATE LEVEL to suppress democratic votes, they realize they have to cheat to win elections now.

DEMOCRACY is seen as a conflict of interest. They hate democracy now. Democracy don't work for Republicans anymore!
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Yes. Why Trump/GOP is trying to take over state secretaries of state.
 
BidenPresident said:
“We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
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The only answer I see now is that we split into 2 countries like Germany did decades ago. It's like the Civil War again. North against south.
 
BidenPresident said:
What territories are going to be fighting? There is no conflict between North and South.
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I guess you've been watching a different show than the rest of us. There are some states in the north with GOP legislatures like Ohio and Idaho - I consider those, "southern" aka, "redneck" states now. They are soon to be just like East Germany was, decades ago. Controlled media, state-controlled education, book banning, oppression of women and minorities.

It's already happening my friend.
 
BidenPresident said:
Yes. Why Trump/GOP is trying to take over state secretaries of state.
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It's more about who gets to count the votes- Red States are setting it up to make it legal to refuse certain minority precinct's votes when they come in and they don't like the counts.

SO they are setting everything up so that only TRUMP SUPPORTED Republicans can verify the votes in every red state!

In other words, whoever refused to change the vote counts for TRUMP in 2020 are being replaced by CORRUPTED TRUMP APPROVED STATE SECRETARIES who will CHEAT and DO WHATEVER TRUMP WANTS THEM TO ILLEGALLY DO FOR HIM TO GET HIM AND HIS TRUMPTARDS ELECTED!
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
It's more about who gets to count the votes- Red States are setting it up to make it legal to refuse certain minority precinct's votes when they come in and they don't like the counts.

SO they are setting everything up so that only TRUMP SUPPORTED Republicans can verify the votes in every red state!

In other words, whoever refused to change the vote counts for TRUMP in 2020 are being replaced by CORRUPTED TRUMP APPROVED STATE SECRETARIES!

In other words, those who will DO WHATEVER TRUMP WANTS THEM TO ILLEGALLY DO FOR HIM TO GET HIM AND HIS TRUMPTARDS ELECTED!
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If Biden and Garland don't have the courage to indict Trump we will see violence at polling sites.
 
BidenPresident said:
Ok, and that has what to do with the Soviets dividing Germany into east and west?
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You really don't get the analogy? Or are you just being obtuse? I don't know your intelligence level or your knowledge of geopolitical history, but East Germany was an oppressive state, and West Germany was a normal, democratic society. Just like today's Republicans are like the oppressors, like the East Germans were and the rest of the country is normal.
 
Similarly, the global financial crisis of 2008 broke the assumption that economic well-being would continue flowing from the liberal model, with its free movement of money and people and ideas. Authoritarian leaders promised to “get tough” with outsiders and played on worries that the dominant majority would be brushed aside. “It is when economic grievances are linked to broader fears — such as immigration, crime, or national decline — that strongman leaders really come into their own,” Rachman explains. They alone can fix it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
 
BidenPresident said:
“We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/13/fukuyama-rachman/
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You have routinely posted that we shouldn't bother to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia
 
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