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Wow, great list. Let's go through it!
1. Autocracy is about power and money, not about ideology
Indeed! As we're seeing, loads of folks were lined up to feed at the NGO and "Inflation reduction Act" trough. After all, Biden was "throwing gold bars off the Titanic", wasn't he?
2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)
We've never seen this before, right? After all, everyone treats Fox, Breitbart and other outfits respectfully, right?
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agencies
Lois Lerner waves "hello". So does Obama's OSHA, FBI, DOJ, CIA...
4. Do not normalize autocratic behavior
"I've got a pen and a phone, and if Congress won't act, I will"
5. Hold on to democratic values
6. Be transparent
From the bunch that was slow in FOIA requests, or conducted official business on closet servers?
7. Stay committed
8. Not about taking sides, but on the side of facts
Facts, amirite? Like Russian collusion?
9. Hold the line: defend the Constitution
Let's ask James Rosen and Carter Page how they feel about their 1st and other Amendment rights. Among others. How about Moms for Liberty?
10. In some ways a corrupt government is easier to deal with, as everything is transactional
11. Build community, engage with the real world
12. Crowd funding to address challenges
Indeed. ActBlue is a wonderful program for laundering money from point A to point B.
13. We are factionalized through social media (it connects as well as corrupts us and separates us), has led to people electing illiberal leaders democratically
Yeah, we've never seen online gangs of liberal 'bots try to swamp and silence people, have we?
14. Collaborate
15. Reach across the ideological spectrum to like-minded people who also care about democratic values
The democrats are doing a bang up job here, calling everyone who disagrees a Nazi or a terrorist.
16. Embrace your fears
17. Imagine worst case scenarios and workflow them (through drills)
OMG are you people doing this with the nonstop Hitler nonsense. Heckuva job.
