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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 09:21 PM Jun 2022

Anarchy Is Likelier Than Tyranny

Anarchy Is Likelier Than Tyranny

June 26, 2022 at 1:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 451 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/26/anarchy-is-likelier-than-tyranny/

"SNIP.....

Janan Ganesh: “The trend of events is not towards strongmen but towards ungovernability.”

......SNIP"

Applegrove: The right doesn't have any legislation or anything they want to make better. If we all become ungovernable the rich right wing elites win.

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Anarchy Is Likelier Than Tyranny (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2022 OP
Exactly, because what do patriots do when Oklahoma puts a Woman in prison for Eliot Rosewater Jun 2022 #1
Nobody wins in a failed state. We're all fucked. harumph Jun 2022 #2
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Ocelot II Jun 2022 #3
Of which the right will use as an excuse for tyranny Solly Mack Jun 2022 #4
We need an enormous midtrrm turnout! Senate seats SheltieLover Jun 2022 #5
We definitely need to vote and I hope people do. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #7
Same here, Solly! SheltieLover Jun 2022 #9
+1 MustLoveBeagles Jun 2022 #10
Must be MOMFUDSKI Jun 2022 #6
It's exactly the Nazi Germany playbook usonian Jun 2022 #8
No, the "rich elites" want fascism not anarchy. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2022 #11
Yes, but they will get anarchy first. Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2022 #12
They would promote anarchy so the people call for and accept fascism. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2022 #15
Do you think they NEED to promote it or is Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2022 #17
More so than anarchy actually, we seem to be breaking apart into 2 separate countries right now. n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2022 #18
It does feel that way. Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2022 #20
Anarchy is a stage in the development of tyranny... Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #13
It's all riding on the midterm election now. roamer65 Jun 2022 #14
The rich right wing elites are legislating from the bench GoodRaisin Jun 2022 #16
+1 dalton99a Jun 2022 #19
Something law professor Barbara McQuade said the other day on MSNBC PlanetBev Jun 2022 #21

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Exactly, because what do patriots do when Oklahoma puts a Woman in prison for
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 09:22 PM
Jun 2022

10 years for obtaining healthcare, as they just promised to do?

Nothing is not an answer.

Ocelot II

(115,705 posts)
3. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 09:37 PM
Jun 2022

It's gotten to the point where the slave states are trying to prevent women from traveling outside the state to get abortions, and the free states are telling them to fuck right off - refusing to provide information, extradite anybody, or otherwise cooperate in any way.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)
7. We definitely need to vote and I hope people do.
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 09:57 PM
Jun 2022

I'm angry and disgusted and I don't know that things will work out, but we can't give up. We must be vote.

usonian

(9,809 posts)
8. It's exactly the Nazi Germany playbook
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 09:58 PM
Jun 2022

Normalize hate and violence.
Stochastic terrorism.
Bring down elected government.



Time shifted to the present day:
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
“Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” Part 1of 8
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,454 posts)
17. Do you think they NEED to promote it or is
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 11:28 PM
Jun 2022

anarchy the natural conclusion to people being pushed to the brink ? I find that as more and more good people feel that they are being marginalized, trivialized, intimidated and bullied, and excluded or dismissed that they will respond - eventually - with so much pent up frustration and fury that they can no longer contain the rage. At that point, they feel that there is nothing left to lose. How much insanity can one person tolerate before they find like-minded bretheren and plan to rebel ?

I feel like I am living in a powder keg any more. And I've developed a strong aversion to matches.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,454 posts)
20. It does feel that way.
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 03:06 PM
Jun 2022

Even where I live, in the Great Pacific Northwest, we have people so delusional, it boggles the mind.

I have a small Ukrainian flag attached to my sunvisor (on the passenger side). Some man, sitting next to me at the stop light lost his mind over this and verbally harassed me, then followed me for 15 miles, trying to intimidate me and run me off the road. It was terrifying. I don't want to live in fear, but this incident has stayed with me for weeks, jacking my anxiety into the stratosphere. I have tried to put the event out of my mind, but I find myself looking in the rearview mirror far more than I ever did before.

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
13. Anarchy is a stage in the development of tyranny...
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 11:10 PM
Jun 2022

Historically speaking, that is. A period of stress and uncertainty is generally followed by some form of strong man government.

Our emergence from the Revolution and creating a Republic is a historical anomaly.

GoodRaisin

(8,923 posts)
16. The rich right wing elites are legislating from the bench
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 11:26 PM
Jun 2022

and they are just getting started. They will undo a century of progress before they get done.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
21. Something law professor Barbara McQuade said the other day on MSNBC
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 03:42 PM
Jun 2022

She said that when a minority seizes power to dominate the majority, it’s something that simply cannot stand for long.

I agree, with the lawlessness of Trump and hypocrisy of the Supreme Court, this country is on it’s way to become ungovernable.

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