14 thoughts on “How to Build an Autocracy http://trib.al/hRpP1P6”
That’s how I feel about everything lately. Even at the Battery Park protest, surrounded by people who agreed with me, I didn’t feel the hope and joy everyone else did. I just felt hollow and certain it was going to get so, so much worse.
< ![CDATA[That's how I feel about everything lately. Even at the Battery Park protest, surrounded by people who agreed with me, I didn't feel the hope and joy everyone else did. I just felt hollow and certain it was going to get so, so much worse.]]>
And to unpack that a little: it doesn’t really matter what the “truth” of the Trump administration is, people need to stay engaged and motivated and taking action (going to protests, pressuring representatives, donating money to organizations) against it. Articles that cast everything as part of some kind of evil mastermind 12th-dimensional chess game undermine engagement IMO.
< ![CDATA[And to unpack that a little: it doesn't really matter what the "truth" of the Trump administration is, people need to stay engaged and motivated and taking action (going to protests, pressuring representatives, donating money to organizations) against it. Articles that cast everything as part of some kind of evil mastermind 12th-dimensional chess game undermine engagement IMO.]]>
Nathan Paoletta I hear you, but I’m going to say the same thing I said elsewhere: people have been constantly saying that Trump is incompetent, and they have been consistently wrong.
This article concludes by saying that the best strategy is to believe what Trump is saying, i.e., when he says he’s going to do X, take him at his word and be prepared for X to happen.
I don’t think it’s about him being an evil mastermind. I think it’s about being aware just what is happening: the start of a kleptocracy.
< ![CDATA[Nathan Paoletta I hear you, but I'm going to say the same thing I said elsewhere: people have been constantly saying that Trump is incompetent, and they have been consistently wrong.
This article concludes by saying that the best strategy is to believe what Trump is saying, i.e., when he says he's going to do X, take him at his word and be prepared for X to happen.
I don't think it's about him being an evil mastermind. I think it's about being aware just what is happening: the start of a kleptocracy.]]>
I’m Swedish, but married to an American, with two American daughters. We are donating to the ACLU, and trying our best to do our part to resist. It is not a fun time to be battling depression, that’s for certain.
< ![CDATA[I'm Swedish, but married to an American, with two American daughters. We are donating to the ACLU, and trying our best to do our part to resist. It is not a fun time to be battling depression, that's for certain.]]>
That’s how I feel about everything lately. Even at the Battery Park protest, surrounded by people who agreed with me, I didn’t feel the hope and joy everyone else did. I just felt hollow and certain it was going to get so, so much worse.
< ![CDATA[That's how I feel about everything lately. Even at the Battery Park protest, surrounded by people who agreed with me, I didn't feel the hope and joy everyone else did. I just felt hollow and certain it was going to get so, so much worse.]]>
I find these articles to be irresponsibly nihilist, tbqh. Here’s a more historically-informed analysis that proposes an equally well-based theory of incompetence: tompepinsky.com – Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders
(I dunno, it made me feel better at least)
< ![CDATA[I find these articles to be irresponsibly nihilist, tbqh. Here's a more historically-informed analysis that proposes an equally well-based theory of incompetence: tompepinsky.com – Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders
(I dunno, it made me feel better at least)]]>
And to unpack that a little: it doesn’t really matter what the “truth” of the Trump administration is, people need to stay engaged and motivated and taking action (going to protests, pressuring representatives, donating money to organizations) against it. Articles that cast everything as part of some kind of evil mastermind 12th-dimensional chess game undermine engagement IMO.
< ![CDATA[And to unpack that a little: it doesn't really matter what the "truth" of the Trump administration is, people need to stay engaged and motivated and taking action (going to protests, pressuring representatives, donating money to organizations) against it. Articles that cast everything as part of some kind of evil mastermind 12th-dimensional chess game undermine engagement IMO.]]>
Nathan Paoletta I hear you, but I’m going to say the same thing I said elsewhere: people have been constantly saying that Trump is incompetent, and they have been consistently wrong.
This article concludes by saying that the best strategy is to believe what Trump is saying, i.e., when he says he’s going to do X, take him at his word and be prepared for X to happen.
I don’t think it’s about him being an evil mastermind. I think it’s about being aware just what is happening: the start of a kleptocracy.
< ![CDATA[Nathan Paoletta I hear you, but I'm going to say the same thing I said elsewhere: people have been constantly saying that Trump is incompetent, and they have been consistently wrong. This article concludes by saying that the best strategy is to believe what Trump is saying, i.e., when he says he's going to do X, take him at his word and be prepared for X to happen. I don't think it's about him being an evil mastermind. I think it's about being aware just what is happening: the start of a kleptocracy.]]>
I’m Swedish, but married to an American, with two American daughters. We are donating to the ACLU, and trying our best to do our part to resist. It is not a fun time to be battling depression, that’s for certain.
< ![CDATA[I'm Swedish, but married to an American, with two American daughters. We are donating to the ACLU, and trying our best to do our part to resist. It is not a fun time to be battling depression, that's for certain.]]>
Look to people of color for leadership and guidance. They have endured this shit for the last 400+ years.
< ![CDATA[Look to people of color for leadership and guidance. They have endured this shit for the last 400+ years.]]>
American liberalism is the guy who coined “Axis of Evil” lecturing you about autocracy in a magazine edited by a former IDF prison guard
mobile.twitter.com – Chase Woodruff on Twitter: “American liberalism is the guy who coined “Axis of Evil” lecturing you about autocracy in a magazine edited by a former IDF prison guard “
< ![CDATA[American liberalism is the guy who coined “Axis of Evil” lecturing you about autocracy in a magazine edited by a former IDF prison guard
mobile.twitter.com – Chase Woodruff on Twitter: “American liberalism is the guy who coined “Axis of Evil” lecturing you about autocracy in a magazine edited by a former IDF prison guard “]]>