You are quite right. The complex and unpredictable nature of these 'social experiments' gives added importance to the full menu of autocratic right-wing strategies. They take a shot-gun approach (sometimes literally). Every outrageous technique they come up with - gerrymandering, for example - only adds to their power and the susceptibil…
You are quite right. The complex and unpredictable nature of these 'social experiments' gives added importance to the full menu of autocratic right-wing strategies. They take a shot-gun approach (sometimes literally). Every outrageous technique they come up with - gerrymandering, for example - only adds to their power and the susceptibility of their supporters to propaganda. (It wasn't possible that Trump lost! Hence the insurrection). It is sinister and anti-democratic in the extreme. And we must constantly relate it to past episodes of human oppression and tragedy. We have no magic anti-fascism card to play, not when the fascists have the judges on their side.
Sigh...can't disagree. Frustrating state of affairs, James. I'll still be stubbornly casting my blue votes, the only weapon I still have in the face of what often appears an inexorable march to a SCOTUS-backed autocracy.
You are quite right. The complex and unpredictable nature of these 'social experiments' gives added importance to the full menu of autocratic right-wing strategies. They take a shot-gun approach (sometimes literally). Every outrageous technique they come up with - gerrymandering, for example - only adds to their power and the susceptibility of their supporters to propaganda. (It wasn't possible that Trump lost! Hence the insurrection). It is sinister and anti-democratic in the extreme. And we must constantly relate it to past episodes of human oppression and tragedy. We have no magic anti-fascism card to play, not when the fascists have the judges on their side.
Sigh...can't disagree. Frustrating state of affairs, James. I'll still be stubbornly casting my blue votes, the only weapon I still have in the face of what often appears an inexorable march to a SCOTUS-backed autocracy.
Hear! Hear!