Michael Oliphant thought occurs that Americans have never faced a full authoritarian takeover (dictatorship) Not the likes of Chile's Pinochet, Hungary's Orbán, Turkey's Erdoğan, Chávez in Venezuela or Putin. Perhaps we should stop using fancy terms like oligarchy and just call it for what it is. - ThreadSky

eddietg51-42.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Michael Oliphant

thought occurs that Americans have never faced a full authoritarian takeover (dictatorship)
Not the likes of Chile's Pinochet, Hungary's Orbán, Turkey's Erdoğan, Chávez in Venezuela or Putin. Perhaps we should stop using fancy terms like oligarchy and just call it for what it is.

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slimer18.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let’s get busy and execute the son of a bitch for treason get it fucking over with !!! I’m sick of waiting!!

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

A Trump dictatorship. It does explain partly why people in the USA seem to be so sanguine or passive about what seems (to the rest of the world) to be an impending catastrophe.

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

The wholesale dismantling of the system of government and the obvious fast track to controlling or perhaps eliminating future elections is new territory for a democratic country used to being able to openly criticise the government of the day without reprisals if they choose to.

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

Everything that has happened in the USA so far since Trump's regime seized power has been right out of the dictator's playbook.

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

The high speed undermining of the rule of law, silencing or controlling of the media, defunding of educators & universities, scientists etc, changing the voting system, cancelling oversight, auditing and anti corruption agencies and overwatch, the cronyism, the open defiance of Congressional power,

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

the stacking of all agencies with loyalists and so on.
This is everything you would do if you wanted to erase a democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.

eddietg51-42.bsky.social•2 days ago

The really bizarre thing is how easy it's been. This is the very thing that Americans pride themselves on being: The land of the free. The very reason the Union was created the way it was

cataman.bsky.social•2 days ago

This tragic situation cannot last very long in a free Society…
Democracy will catch up to them, but challenging times are ahead, until Society can no longer bear the suffocation of their Freedom..

burnt-caramel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Jan 6 was the early warning, but the American institutions and much of the electorate in their hubris failed to take it seriously enough and recognize it as the next pandemic.

joekassel.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is an authoritarian takeover.
It is being spearheaded by a tyrant named tRump!

amalgama1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do not forget Cuba 🇨🇺.
And that's my fear that Americans do not know how it looks.

honeymcmoney.bsky.social•2 days ago

A dictatorship Ok!
But that less fancy?
Does it resonate more deeply with who?
Say all the words! Including “demonic” for its resonance with a huge swath of Americans

cocozilla.bsky.social•2 days ago

But the American mainstream media is too cowardly

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