US-Historiker Robert Kagan: „Wir sehen zu, wie ein Land fast ohne Widerstand unter die Diktatur fällt“
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-historian-robert-kagan-we-are-watching-a-country-fall-under-dictatorship-almost-without-resistance-a-d262290b-cca0-4c2f-945d-2ef3b64c574f
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Because people expect it to change with the next election.
I heard stories from my grandmother who was a teenager in Netherlands in WWII how awful it was. She saw this coming years ago. So strange to see this happening in modern times, in slow motion, by the dumbest people who could be in charge. And the intelligent people are all just screaming into the void. It’s bizarre
Americans have been trained to be docile. They’re more worried about losing their job than their lives.
We need our political leaders to lead. And then the people will follow. Everyone is broke and living paycheck to paycheck. We are too focused on staying afloat.
„And now we’re watching an entire country slide into authoritarianism with almost no resistance“. This is how we in Europe see what’s happening to the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership, and it’s happening right in front of your eyes — do something.
Lost my job at McDonald’s due to being a felon, guess my only option now is to run for President
It is amazing how the United States is folding like a cheap suit to authoritarianism. I was thought of Russia as a paper tiger, but now the United States is like a cardboard tiger. All talk and no balls.
Completely without resistance. Calling it fascism on the internet while doing nothing but occasionally spending their weekend walking with a bunch of people who agree with them has accomplished absolutely nothing. We’re weak and deserve a dictatorship. It always was, really. Only difference is now they’ve removed the pretense.
Another commies propaganda
I guess the problem is what should the average American do? I mean, I vote all the time I’ve been to protest and rallies. I live in a blue city in a purple state so I’m not really sure what direct actions I can take as the individual.
More defeatist horseshit that ignores every single daily act of local resistance that is happening across the country.
This is the logical outcome of American Exceptionalism. Americans have been primed from childhood to believe that our system, by the genius of the Founders, is uniquely resilient and immune to dictatorship. It is not. There has not been a resistance to this push towards fascism because the country believe that the Constitution (to which people ascribe almost magical power) will somehow prevail on its own without the active involvement of the citizenry.
This is the best thing that could happen, they have let down their masks, we all see them for what they are.
They won’t win. When they’ve lost, we will know who they are, we will know who supported them and who enabled them. There will be a reckoning.
A third of the US electorate does not see any slide to authoritarianism, oligarchy, fascism, or totalitarianism and will continue to vote for Trump and MAGA.
Half of „undecided“ voters do not think it is as bad as people say and will vote on issues personal to their individual lives, like immigration or prices.
60 percent of voters, mostly those who aren’t diehard conservatives, don’t vote at all.
Now a large number of voters are about to be unable to vote for a variety of reasons.
The US has no hope. Not because of this, but because there will be no election outcome in November. An election may happen, but the results will not be respected by those already in power and will be deemed untrustworthy, leaving them in power.
Yup, Americans have no balls.
Yeah, I thought we were cooked in 2016. And now I am certain we are.
Just Onlookers with a shrug.
Idiots think An election is stolen = storm the capital
Rapist runs a dictatorship = nothing..
When institutions fail, people (and communities) are the last line of defense. The people of Minneapolis and St Paul have shown us what highly successful civil resistance looks like.
I got my exit strategy, cant even do a general strike. Just blowing whistles and pointless marches
Well hey now Robert, Chuck Schumer sent a strongly worded message.
Yeah it’s kind of pathetic isn’t it
That’s not true. There is resistance all over. The glaring problem is the percentage of Congress, and SCOTUS, who are actually help usher a dictatorship in.
Elected officials may not be resisting, but the peoples sure are. A better question by the media might be why does the media ignore the millions that have taken to the streets.
Ads on the website are cancer.
And what makes everything extra difficult is that the orange guy at the top never tells the truth about anything and has absolutely zero concern for the country or its people.
He is totally focused on enriching himself and his family, and to hell with the consequences.
Tell that to Renee Good and Alex Pretti and many more. People are resisting and they are being shot, arrested, and murdered.
But there is resistance. It just (presently) doesn’t look like the French Revolution hundreds of years ago.
Minneapolis is resistance. There have been hundreds of organized walkouts by students at schools all over the country, and throughout most of the state in Michigan. There was a protest of over 100,000 people in San Francisco. Portland, OR protesting. Grand Rapids and Detroit, MI protesting. The attempt at burning down a warehouse in KC to thwart a sale. NJ is resisting the increased presence as well.
Judges blocking the release of voter rolls, Mamdani signing executive orders to reinforce no entry without warrants, Colbert running Talarico’s interview online and getting over 6M views in 24 hours, the dramatic swings on special elections in some ruby red areas.
People are resisting. And it will continue to build if we head down this path. If media was actually covering the warehouse purchases honestly, showing the protests, talking about the voter roll requests, it would be moreso. They know that. Which is why they don’t. We as a people are fighting against a *massive* system designed to contain this. But it will not work forever.
“Donf tred on mah!” *Government treads all over them*
The whole problem is the democrats are trying absolutely nothing to stop this.
It was inevitable when I saw how easily people will ignore facts to support their own beliefs. Evangelism provided the framework.
Feudal capitalism, the distribution of wealth has gone from a working class to the top 1%. The billionaires have turned their attention from developing products to exploiting and controlling the masses, their most important resource.
It’s more like that Trump is basically revealing that the USA never truly was a democracy in the first place nor did its population ever valued it hence the lack of resistance.
There can be no triumph without loss, no victory without suffering, no freedom without sacrifice.
Depends on what happens after Trump. If a psycho asks young Republican takes over then we’re really screwed.
Simple: they control Fox, they control local TV stations, they control local radio stations, and they control Twitter.
…once the media has been taken over by a malicious actor then it’s game-over for democracy
*fell
The coup already happened when someone who the Comstitution bans from holding office was allowed to act as president.
Hey, at least we get to say „I told you so“, amirite?
There is plenty of resistance.
Freedom! It’s a word!