So I guess this is my plea to Great Britain to not sleepwalk into fascism the way America did. We had a judicial coup. We have Christian supremacists. It’ll be different country to country, but the threat of Putin-aligned oligarchs remains stark. 18/ - ThreadSky

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heidicuda.bsky.social • 31 days ago

So I guess this is my plea to Great Britain to not sleepwalk into fascism the way America did.

We had a judicial coup. We have Christian supremacists. It’ll be different country to country, but the threat of Putin-aligned oligarchs remains stark.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

After the election of Joe Biden in 2020, there was a belief that we were out of the woods, that Trump could finally be prosecuted and that the worst was behind us. But the last four years was merely an opportunity for these brozillas to grow stronger.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

The writer and publisher John Mitchinson, in an interview with my podcast, told me that the biggest danger is complacency and urged people – and the Labour Government – to take control of their destiny.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

“They need to understand the historical moment they have inherited,” he said. “It’s a crucial moment in our history.”

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

There’s the great W B Yeats line: ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’, well we have to change that polarity around… we have to say, ‘Look, don’t be fooled….

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

“We have been through this before. And there are people alive who remember the rise of fascism the first time. It never goes away. This virus, unfortunately, the one we thought we’d consigned like smallpox to the realms of history, it hadn’t gone away.”

It must be defeated, again.

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heidicuda.bsky.social•31 days ago

So I ask British citizens to not look away, but instead look to Romania, Poland, Georgia, Finland, and Ukraine – see how they fight against politicians aligned with the new axis of evil, of which America is now a part.

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