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The Independent 1
1 day ago
Here are the authoritarian tactics being implemented against our Republic:
Propaganda and Disinformation:
False Claims and Lies: Repeated disinformation to create confusion and a false reality.
Demonization of Opponents: Branding opponents as enemies to diminish their credibility.
Attacks on Democratic Institutions:
Judicial Undermining: Disparaging judges, interfering with court decisions, or appointing loyalists to courts.
Politicizing Law Enforcement: Manipulating law enforcement agencies for partisan purposes.
Discrediting Elections: Claiming widespread fraud, pushing voter suppression, and questioning election results- only if they lose.
Erosion of Civil Liberties:
Surveillance and Intimidation: Monitoring of citizens and intimidation of political opponents and even their own “uncooperative” party members.
Censorship: Implementing laws to silence dissent and restrict free speech.
Militarization: Using paramilitary groups or security forces to suppress protests and opposition.
Creating a Cult of Personality:
Leader Worship: Promoting the leader as the sole solution to national problems.
Symbols and Slogans: Utilizing symbols and grandiose rhetoric to build loyalty and unity around the leader.
Nationalism and Xenophobia:
Us vs. Them: Promoting extreme nationalism and blaming minorities, foreign entities, and nationals for domestic problems.Reply
If you are not concerned you need to be. This data came from a legitimate source, not faux information, or whims of a political party. It is designed to spell out in clear language what is at stake, happening this second, to everyone. Nobody is immune from any of it and it will get worse if humans don’t take a stand to end the madness of a mad man and his cult followers.
Trump is leading like a cult leader, not someone who took an oath of office, and knows full well his limits and their legalities. The idea of he doesn’t know, or nobody told him are false. He knows and is trying to get by with as much mishegas as possible to avoid going to jail. He is willing and has been attacking innocent Americans, immigrants that became legal to live here, deporting them and their families. There is nothing legal about any of this. He has been abusing his office since the first time he was POTUS, and his staff and backers are letting it happen.
No president has a right to do any of this. None of this is legal, there is no justification to go after journalists doing their jobs, or teachers, college professors or their students, grants being used for legitimate purposes to help find cures and means to protect us and their own countries. It is not aiding and abetting the enemy. It is not trying to screw with your health by finding cures for diseases like covid, cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s, ALS, nor mumps, measles or rubella, chicken pox, neuromuscular injuries, none of it. Those are all the very things that threaten our health, our children’s health and wellbeing. They can’t be treated or cured with prayer or cow pats, bleach, nor any other faux medicine.
Trump and his staff not only are spreading lies, but dangerous ones that will and have caused the demise of innocent adults and children. Because of them we have walls to keep people out from coming to our country. Our country was founded by immigrants, our history rich with those that came before us. Yes, we must keep those who are here to harm us such as drug lords, terrorists that are on legitimate watch lists by Interpol, not fantasies of Nazi want to BE’s.
Our people and country will not tolerate another atrocity like that which occurred at Auschwitz or other countries. We do not lock up people in internment camps if we dislike what they have to say or can prove. Yes, this is happening and its got to stop now. We don’t tie the hands of municipal or federal judges and courts trying to uphold the rules of law. That is happening in our country. We will not strip away the rights and civil liberties, healthcare rights of those whose medical issues we disagree. All Things we are seeing happen in this country. We don’t ban books for kids to read because a few parents chose to refuse their rights, parents that were more than likely those who skipped classes and paid off teachers or principles to graduate them anyway.
We cannot just ignore history or events that happened because we don’t want to accept truth or outcomes. We do not sell out our allies, people we called friends of the US on the whims of a madman. Trump has put all of us in a dangerous position, without backup. Billy Bob and his pals can’t protect us from a nuclear attack, if we are struck by nukes from Iran, Russia, China and North Korea we are toast. This cannot be our fate. We must demand that this man be stripped of his duties along with his cabinet, placed in a pen that will not allow him to cause further harm here or abroad. It is that dire.
This isnt about the price of eggs, though even sheep have had to cut back on those, or the price of other grocery items due to tariffs, watch decent mom and pop stores and diner options, suffer a similar demise. It has reached critical mass, and sheep just can no longer be silent. We stand with Ukraine and other countries who have suffered at this man’s hands and that of Putin and Musk. We might joke about a lot of things, but we will never laugh at others who have lost jobs, wages, homes, all of it due to the greed of one man and his billionaire boys club.
Sheep have been affected firsthand and understand all too well what is at stake. We share in your pain and frustration at the grotesque antics of this cochon, do not support him or his cult in any way. There is no defense for such disgusting acts nor comments. We cannot say this enough it is the same pen, there is no first class, so no roughing the puppy. We are all in this together, and we must stick together and know we have your backs. If this lands us in a black house in Borneo, know we were on the right track and won’t be silenced. There is too much at stake, your rights, civil liberties mean something to us. Your freedom of speech, whether they like or agree with it or not, matters to us. Those protesting, we see you and support you. You are not invisible. AOC, Bernie, Barack, Joe, yes, we are telling you that you are not invisible either. Out of the goodness of our hearts to be fair, we are including Margie, and Lisa, and Adam, and all who are like us, fighting the good fight to get this country, the rights of the people, all of us, back where they belong.
God Bless and let’s all keep fighting the good fight together.
