Authored by John W. Dean and Robert Altemeyer.
We are living and dying in the Authoritarian Nightmare!!! We need to cage our authoritarian threat NOW!
I’ve read John Dean’s new book Authoritarian Nightmare: Donald Trump and His Followers and have already created emails, FB posts, and another blog post from it. I also read his first book in 2006, Conservatives Without Conscience and posted about it. This threat is real, verifiable, well documented and is occupying the White House, our Senate and our state legislatures.
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!
If we don’t, we are doomed to a authoritarian dictatorship where corporations will have veto power over the government. No more checks and balances. No more separation of powers. No more separation of State and Church. No more Social Security. No more Medicare. Massive infrastructure failures. Hundreds of thousand lost to Pandemic mismanagement. Massive military and police build-up. Instead of advancing democracy in the American workplace, American democracy will be no more. Instead of more equality, just more protection and empowerment for the excessively wealthy and, for the rest of us, growing economic, social, racial, and environmental injustice.
Even after DJT is gone there are other ‘Republican’ authoritarian leaders salivating to harness the voting power of these unquestioning right-wing authoritarian followers. Until something is done with Fox Noise and right-wing hate radio, these followers will be huddled, galvanized, and ready to follow the next dictator-wana-be.
As seen by the authoritarian handling of COVID, we are in DEADLY straits and we have to stop their maximization of injustice.
As we all know, there are many efforts to distract us from this DJT evil and divide us so we can’t fight back. I see now that the distractions includes our own focus on our favorite issues like the keeping the ACA, stopping the separation of immigrant children from their parents and ending the climate crisis. The issue oriented debates are a part of this distraction and are ignoring the Elephant on the debate stage.
We have many distractions from the on-going destruction of our government and our way of life, as perpetrated by authoritarianism, This destruction is largely not discussed by voters and seldom mentioned by our media nor in any debate.
The Authoritarian Republican Elephant is trampling all over our democracy and we need to cage it ASAP.
VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
VOTE AGAINST AUTHORITARIAN RULE.
VOTE EARLY.
VOTE EVERY FUTURE ELECTION.
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Caging The Threat of SCOTUS Originalism
Our New, More Authoritarian, SCOTUS Has Great Potential --- for Substantial Civil Rights Rollback.
Originalists will try to renege on Lincoln's “new birth of freedom” represented by the post Civil War 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. These amendments represent a major accomplishment toward maximizing equality in an imperfect America.
"... an originalist is basically someone who tells you a butterfly is not a butterfly because caterpillars don’t have wings.
"Metamorphosis isn’t too grand an analogy for the pervasive changes wrought by the second founding and the revolution encoded in the Reconstruction Amendments. These were not tacked on as additions to the existing Constitution as it was written or “intended” in 1789. They transformed the whole of the thing, enriching and deepening and expanding the meaning of the rest of the document. There’s a reason we call the Radical Republicans of that era “radical.” They reached down to the roots of the Constitution and turned the whole of it into something new.
"And yet, today, these Founding Fathers are as invisible to the judicial activists wearing the mask of “originalism” as they are invisible to the children force-fed David Barton’s Christian nationalist propaganda instead of real history. This oversight is so monumental that it’s difficult to imagine it could be accidental. And we have good reason to conclude that it is not."
VOTE.
VOTE the ENTIRE ballot.
VOTE to cage the Republican rampaging authoirtarian elephant.
VOTE to rebalance federal courts to support equal protection and empowerment of human citizens.
‘Originalism’ denies — and despises — the ‘new birth of freedom’