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Four minutes and a smile could save our democracy from the #GOPDystopia! #ScienceFact: smiling improves the way you perceive the world. Things don’t seem so big, bad, or terrible when you smile or you see someone smiling!
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The media insists that both Republicans and Democrats pose violent threats against our democratic norms and traditions when it clearly is only the Republicans that do. This post ties together how elite overproduction and racial animus combine to produce the Republican threat to our democracy.
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We are all influenced by status quo bias, so it is important to understand how it will affect our decision making in the 2024 election. Spoiler: it will drive third party voting
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The way you undermine an established democracy is by attacking its democratic culture. You’ve got to get people who once believed in democratic solutions to their problems to accept autocratic ones. Here’s the progress polling reveals Trump and Republicans have made in eroding our democratic culutre.
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Voting is our super power. Registering people to vote is amplifying our power. Find out how you can help save democracy by helping to get the vote out in 2024!
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With one third of the population set to have their inner authoritarian meltdown at any moment, what can we do to get them to see democracy as their in-group? How can Democrats continue to peel authoritarians off of the MAGA base?
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Happy Merry Christmas, y’all! Here’s an explainer of authoritarianism and when it rears its ugly head just in time for the 6 January Committee’s report release party and everything.
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We are watching the fascification of America in real time. We watch our society become increasingly violent. We watch as Republican politicians stoke violence and scapegoat groups. We know this path leads to authoritarianism.
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When the country is divided into thirds, everyone is a minority, and everyone is using minority influence. Learn what minority influence is, how the GOP has been using it against us, and how we can use it for us in the ’22 elections!
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Why do all of the conservative traits cluster around the fucked up end of the spectrum? Racism, misogyny, homophobia, authoritarianism. All conservative traits. But, history is on our side!
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The conservative members of our society are being very destructive in their response to the pandemic and promotion of racist conservative social issues. Is it the case that people with dark tetrad personalities are drawn to conservative politics?
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Our democracy died when we started electing politicians who thought it was more important that they get re-elected than representing their constituents or political positions.
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What ails the Democratic Party in the run up to the 22 elections? Can it be diagnosed? Can it be cured? Yes, Yes, and YES! Will they? Who knows? Ye Olde Blogge does!
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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
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We have good news for once! Conservative regressive social policies propagated during times of national crisis, like the #COVID19 pandemic, backfire and cause the electorate to turn against the governments pushing them. Maybe there is hope for the 2022 election. Maybe.
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Man, you’re going to want to read this one even if it is TL;DR. We’ve hit the treasure trove of authoritarian qualities and characteristics that explains a lot of the cray-cray we’re seeing across the country.
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Authoritarians use a technique called waves of terror where they manufacture periods of fear interspersed with brief moments of calm to drive a population to desperation. Will the waves of climate disasters and #COVID19 do the same thing? Are we more susceptible to authoritarian takeover because of climate change and the #COVID19 pandemic?
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While 2020 was an eventful year and one that we should all reflect on, it also marks the end of Trump’s era in our lives. Join me in reflecting on the things we’ve learned and how we’ve changed during Trump’s time in office.
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We all wonder why @GSAEmily doesn’t just sign the papers to ascertain that #BidenHarris are the apparent winners of Election 2020. She is complying in advance with the desires of an authoritarian. She’s heard the messages of Trump and the GOP and is doing what they want. In the meantime, she is responsible for the thousands of deaths from #COVID19 by denying Biden vital information in the transition.
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The fourth and final post inspired by Tim Snyder’s “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” This time I outline the five most important lessons for the #Resistance in America today.
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