People are now starting to understand what "strip it for parts" could look like, but that really needs to be articulated by folks like you a lot more explicitly and repetitively.
It's heartbreaking to see people rounded up and deported. It's heartbreaking to watch a mafia state destroy lives. That people were assholes to me is low on my list of grievances. Everyone should be furious at officials who fully knew this plan and abetted the attempted collapse of this country.
Prof Peter Kuznick speaks of the atomic bombs
US crimes and lies behind the Vietnam war, Cold War, and how that war and MSM influences the world today
JFK, US imperialism, Latin America, War on Terror and War on Drugs.
Met with my congressman's Chief of staff yesterday. He is as concerned as we are. He has no idea how to support his boss in effective action. What can we demand they do? How can we use congress to stop them?
Putting pressure on Texas to run a special election to replace a dead Democrat from Houston might be a start. No more “well we just won’t put someone in office.” That needs to die with McConnell (who lives, but is legislatively dead in the water, having unleashed the demons)
I tried to explain this to someone by using Putin as an example. Over 20 years later he's still in office. But this person just didn't accept it would happen here. But it's unfurling right now.
I just finished reading the book and it’s just horrifying. It is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of his criminal activities. Thank you for all you do.
I’m just so frustrated!! Like honestly what do we DO? I vote! I write my people in office! I participate in my local community. I’m just at a loss on what *I* actually am supposed to do beyond that. And that’s the scariest part.
Plz note, 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙢 “…is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual…”
In your book, you say, “Many are criminals without borders who have moved from hijacking businesses to hijacking nations. Some call them fascists; I avoid this term because being a fascist requires an allegiance to the state.”
And, you don’t view Trump a “fascist” — because why exactly??? Idk.
Literally answered in the excerpt you quoted: "requires an allegiance to the state". He wants the US to collapse into feuding oligarch fiefdoms that can be raided for resources. He uses fascist rhetoric and tactics, and is an authoritarian kleptocrat, but not a fascist in the 20th-century sense.
The real question -- and one that has not been sufficiently answered, is how do ordinary people rectify this situation, other than risk their own lives?
I have my doubts as to whether continuing to vote, continuing to protest, and continuing to boycott known oligarchs' businesses will be enough.
My Senator (Marsha) is up to the eyeballs in the whole Russia/NRA/GOP enmeshment. Her and her "close family friend," G. Kline Preston. And it's just right out there in the open. And no one cares.
Yes, I read this in your book and Ruth Ben-Ghiat says much the same thing. People are raising alarms and it's alarming to watch so many people disregard the alarms.
Terrifying, infuriating, yet not surprising. And you’ve been sounding the alarm for years, Sarah!
I just shared your book excerpt with my husband (who is not on social media) and he beat me to the punch, immediately ordering HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. We’ll fight over who gets to read it first.
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Money 🔄 Power
The closer they get, the more #democracy degenerates into an #oligarchy, and when they merge (like in the US now), into a #mafia_state.
Media billionaires like Musk play a central role in this.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-untold-history-of-us-war-crimes
Prof Peter Kuznick speaks of the atomic bombs
US crimes and lies behind the Vietnam war, Cold War, and how that war and MSM influences the world today
JFK, US imperialism, Latin America, War on Terror and War on Drugs.
…sad…
Tragic
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And, you don’t view Trump a “fascist” — because why exactly??? Idk.
2/2
I have my doubts as to whether continuing to vote, continuing to protest, and continuing to boycott known oligarchs' businesses will be enough.
Have you tried this?
I just shared your book excerpt with my husband (who is not on social media) and he beat me to the punch, immediately ordering HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. We’ll fight over who gets to read it first.
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