No. of Recommendations: 5
From the linked piece:
The purpose of the Blitzkrieg of executive orders and other actions by the Trump administration is to overwhelm you, make it difficult to prioritize, and demoralize and terrify you.
… every authoritarian state seeks to create states of hypervigilance and fear among the public, so that people will self-censor, and comply with whatever the leader asks them to do.
The playbook is the same, from 10 year old playground bullies to autocrats leading nations. If they can make you afraid, they can control you.
The response must be the same as well. Stand up to the bully. There may be short term pain, but long term freedom from fear.
—Peter
No. of Recommendations: 1
From the article:
As I wrote on Inauguration Day, “the individuals and organizations that want to destroy our democracy and make us feel powerless have been at this game for a long time. But now far more of us are onto them. We are familiar with their scams, their distraction and deflection rhetoric, their conversion of violence into patriotism, and their bargains with unscrupulous religious leaders who praise them as instruments of divine will. And we can translate that experience into anti-authoritarian action.”
