Wow-some of our Dem Reps and Senators must not have read Timothy Snyder's 20 Lessons

[Just_Vote_Dem]

On Fighting Tyranny-and here's a few:

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections.

10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

All 20 at https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth

[msongs]

1. one suspects last second conversion will not keep people out of the camps nt

[Just_Vote_Dem]

4. Yep, converters would be seen as hypocrites most likely, and get the axe much worse n/t

[Cha]

2. Oh Yeah... Fetterman comes to mind when I read

the First Rule.

TY

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. Hi Cha, you're very welcome

I was apprehensive when Trump won-and now when I see what some of our reps are saying-

[Cha]

5. Adding Insult to Injury.

Thank you Again!

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Threats are being made and violence will follow.....

Along with harassment by the Felon’s FBI, IRS. The Felon will use the judiciary and law enforcement to get even with Democrats. He said it and now it will be done.

[wnylib]

11. Meantime, some of our own people are betraying us.

[LearnedHand]

7. #11 is my favorite

It precisely captures why I hate television show "analysis" by vapid anchors:

11. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

8. That is also a great one! n/t

[NotHardly]

9. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in the American people ..geeze

[Just_Vote_Dem]

10. Wanna get REALLY disappointed?

Read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.

My jaw was dropping for weeks.