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In reply to the discussion: @CustomsBorder got on a Greyhound bus yesterday and asked every passenger for their papers [View all]Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)28. This is how Democracy dies
How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewherenot just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.... How Democracies Die is a lucid and essential guide to what can happen here.
New York Times
How Democracies Die studies the modern history of apparently healthy democracies that have slid into autocracy. It is hard to read this fine book without coming away terribly concerned about the possibility Trump might inflict a mortal wound on the health of the republic.... It is simplistic to expect boots marching in the streets, but there will be a battle for democracy.
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
"Well worth the read."
--Stonepounder
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewherenot just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.... How Democracies Die is a lucid and essential guide to what can happen here.
New York Times
How Democracies Die studies the modern history of apparently healthy democracies that have slid into autocracy. It is hard to read this fine book without coming away terribly concerned about the possibility Trump might inflict a mortal wound on the health of the republic.... It is simplistic to expect boots marching in the streets, but there will be a battle for democracy.
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
"Well worth the read."
--Stonepounder
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@CustomsBorder got on a Greyhound bus yesterday and asked every passenger for their papers [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2018
OP
As the grandchild of Irish immigrants, I have an Irish passport and dual citizenship.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2018
#38
Same thing happened to me two years ago on a train near the Canadian border. nt
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2018
#12
The Department of State requires a driver license/gov't issued ID and a birth/naturalization cert
GreenEyedLefty
Jan 2018
#31
Huh? A BC is the document the DoS needs to establish that you were born in the US
GreenEyedLefty
Jan 2018
#41