About Andy Hailey
Vietnam Vet, UT El Paso Grad, Retired Aerospace Engineer, former union rep, 60's Republican now progressive, web admin, blogger.
We need to break authoritarian driven cycle & prevent any future authoritarian coups. We need more democracy in our political & economic systems. Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: hide-amp
- Supporting Video: <a href="https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_lessons_from_crisis_year_2020" target="_blank" title="ECONOMIC UPDATE WITH RICHARD D. WOLFF">Lessons From A Crisis Year 2020</a>
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas-crisis-of-democracy" target="_blank" title="The interesting question is not what causes authoritarianism but what has ever suspended it.">What We Get Wrong About America’s Crisis of Democracy</a>
- Related Web Article: <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/moderate-rot/" target="_blank" title="With few exceptions, Biden’s current policy positions are destructively corporate, deferential to obscene concentrations of wealth, woefully inadequate for meeting human needs, and zealously militaristic.">The ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party</a>
- footnotes:
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Media-Info Control
|
Tagged Mega Rich RWA, Single-party State
|
|
Our democracy requires eternal vigilance and massive participation to keep the ever-present anti-democratic forces corralled. Continue reading →
- Supporting Articles: <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/08/dont-let-up-fascism-isnt-dead-yet/" target="_blank" title="Don’t Let Up: Fascism isn’t Dead Yet - CounterPunch.org">Don't Let Up: Fascism Isn't Dead Yet</a>
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: hide-amp
Posted in Authoritarianism, Enemy/Scapegoat
|
Tagged John Dean
|
|
The Republican Party is populated by almost all those in America who tested as highly prejudicial and authoritarian as documented in Dean’s new book. As Dean documents, They are not going away and the rest of us will need to stand up, en masse, to keep these confirmed authoritarians under control FROM THIS ELECTION FORWARD! Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism, Church/State Unification, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment
|
|
INTRODUCTION John Dean’s newest book. Authoritarian Nightmare: Donald Trump and His Followers, details the threat of American authoritarianism. In addition, he recommends how America can stop the threat of dictatorial rule by highly prejudicial and authoritarian personalities. Forty years of … Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
- Supporting Video: <a href="https://freespeech.org/stories/authoritarian-nightmare-john-dean-helped-bring-down-nixon-over-watergate-he-says-trump-is-worse/" target="_blank" title="“Authoritarian Nightmare”: John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Watergate. He Says Trump Is Worse - Free Speech TV" >John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon over Watergate. He Says Trump Is Worse</a>
Posted in Authoritarianism, Enemy/Scapegoat, Obsession with Punishment
|
Tagged John Dean
|
|
“I’m in control. I don’t need anyone. I hate all these lesser people that are part of this political system ‘helping’ me. I hate those I hire to do my bidding and then don’t. I really hate those suckers who are making me rich while I pander to them. I’m getting so angry that If I lose the election, someone will pay and it won’t be me. If I can’t have my kingdom, I will destroy it on my way out and blame others.” Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism
|
|
Right-wing authoritarianism has been corrupting our critical national systems so as to end our long-term democratic experiment to maximize equality. Citizens have suffered needlessly for decades and we must stop the authoritarian’s final push to maximize inequality in their favor. Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
- amp-page-builder:
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Human Rights Abuse, Obsession with Punishment
|
|
We may all feel despair, but don’t let it have the last word. Embrace your despair and use its emotional force to stop our growing neofascism by any means available. Use it to become a force for a long-term greater good that is still possible but not yet within sight. Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion
|
|
It’s Also About Voting to Protect and Empower Our Democratic Republic This election is about much more than replacing DJT. It’s about the system failures that have enabled him to get elected and that refuse to remove him from office … Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion, Election Fraud
|
|
Both totalitarian systems are a merger of political and economic systems. Both are authoritarian but one is controlled by the political system and the other is controlled by the economic system. Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Intrusion
|
Tagged Fascism - Here?
|
|
We need a new and BETTER NORMAL that not only re-establishes what we’ve lost since the mid twentieth century, but includes FDR’s Second Bill of Rights (6.), and more. Continue reading →
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor:
- ampforwp_custom_content_editor_checkbox:
- ampforwp-amp-on-off: default
Posted in Authoritarianism, Protect & Empower
|
|
Andy Hailey