This came out in 2017-2018 based on historical authoritarian regimes and what to expect and how to survive and fight back and support each other during authoritism power take over attempts. Thought it may be helpful to anyone interested.
Link:
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/
Contributions made by many online as, "With love, your Eastern European friends”, and the accompanying hashtag #LearnFromEurop."
(Shoot. If I wasn't supposed to share outside links please delete. It is helpful but not sure if against rules.)
Wow! The link to that 2018 article on authoritarian regime tactics was a chilling eye-opener. It could have been written TODAY about this week and last month and... As a student of Western European history, I have been making some similar observations in a forum of my professional peers for many months. The loudest hostile R voices have become muted somewhat over the past few weeks. I'm hoping they are observing, paying attention, questioning, re-evaluating their 'truths'. Too many seem unreachable, with opinions set in stone, but perhaps here and there a chink in the mortar will allow some daylight of reason in.
@classictravelr yes it is eerily like today. The audio Q&A predictions that they just posted was very helpful too. (Thanks to those that did that.)
The Q & A predictions is not captioned. I would love to know what was said.
I just listened to the June Q & A audio and enjoyed the format. From the discussion, it looks like there is a 'ways' to go until the light shines upon a positive path forward, and it will be a tough fight.
In my mind a key factor will be that over half of the voting population (amounting to about 30% of the adult population) voted for this, knowingly or unknowingly. They are emotionally invested, they don't want to be wrong, and they will see only what they want to see. Hypocrisy will prevail as the 'anti-safety-net' people look for 'their' safety net.
I believe that the amount of conflicted emotion among many will slow the process of change . . . I see democracy prevailing in the end, but not by the margin that one would think it should. History will not look kindly upon these times.
The Q & A predictions is not captioned. I would love to know what was said.
I have posted a transcript now on the World Predictions Page for three of the four questions, just below the June Q&A audio recording. I will add the last question this weekend.
@sheli it is the June Q& A under predictions tab
@Mi Chelle
Links are fine and I appreciate that you are asking! We are only asking that people post links to reliable, fact-checked news so we can avoid passing on disinformation. That's all. What you posted was fine!
I found this tonight from the Alt National Park Service account. It appears that the No Kings day protests exceeded the 3.5% threshold by a significant margin: