We Don't Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.

[Javaman]

https://eand.co/we-dont-know-how-to-warn-you-any-harder-america-is-dying-26ff80912391

(you want a road map to fascism? here it is and we are well down that road)

Right about now, something terrible is happening in America. Society is one tiny step away from the final collapse of democracy, at the hands of a true authoritarian, and his fanatics. Meanwhile, America’s silent majority is still slumbering at the depth and gravity of the threat.

I know that strikes many of you as somehow wrong. So let me challenge you for a moment. How much experience do you really have with authoritarianism? Any? If you’re a “real” American, you have precisely none.

Take it from us survivors and scholars of authoritarianism. This is exactly how it happens. The situation could not — could not — be any worse. The odds are now very much against American democracy surviving.

If you don’t believe me, ask a friend. I invite everyone who’s lived under authoritarianism to comment. Those of us how have?

We survivors of authoritarianism have a terrible, terrible foreboding, because we are experiencing something we should never do: deja vu. Our parents fled from collapsing societies to America. And here, now, in a grim and eerie repeat of history, we see the scenes of our childhoods played out all over again. Only now, in the land that we came to. We see the stories our parents recounted to us happening before our eyes, only this time, in the place they brought us to, to escape from all those horrors, abuses, and depredations.

more at link...

please read this, and if you don't you have been warned.

[brooklynite]

1. Who? From Where?

[Javaman]

2. did you read it that fast? nt

[brooklynite]

5. Yep...

Take it from us survivors and scholars of authoritarianism. This is exactly how it happens. The situation could not — could not — be any worse. The odds are now very much against American democracy surviving.

If you don’t believe me, ask a friend. I invite everyone who’s lived under authoritarianism to comment. Those of us how have?
We survivors of authoritarianism have a terrible, terrible foreboding, because we are experiencing something we should never do: deja vu. Our parents fled from collapsing societies to America. And here, now, in a grim and eerie repeat of history, we see the scenes of our childhoods played out all over again. Only now, in the land that we came to. We see the stories our parents recounted to us happening before our eyes, only this time, in the place they brought us to, to escape from all those horrors, abuses, and depredations.

Nothing about the authoritarian country they came from.

Since I've LIVED in a Dictatorship, I like to make judgements about what others consider to be one.

[Another Jackalope]

9. The author Umair Haque is Pakistani.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umair_Haque

I think Pakistan qualifies.

[Javaman]

10. Maybe after the fact

I posted it at 1:20 cst and you responded at 1:21. It only took you 1 minute to read the entire article?

So how are those speed reading classes going?

[Wednesdays]

3. Hold off with that thought for just 8 more weeks

I'll join your disillusionment if God forbid, we fail to wrest the White House from Mango Mussolini.

Otherwise, until then keep the faith.

[Javaman]

4. That's just it...

the author is saying that we shouldn't hold off. we have to actively fight this bullshit now.

8 weeks from know could very well be way too late.

[brooklynite]

6. And what does "fight this" mean?

What other option do you (or they) imagine is an option?

[cwydro]

8. So what should we do?

If voting isn’t good enough?

I’ll wait.

[KT2000]

7. I didn't have to ask my friend

She volunteered that what is happening is exactly what Mao did to make himself the "dear leader" and the re-education began in the schools. The official house cleaning was the Cultural Revolution. She holds out hope for the election but said America has been diminished on the world stage.