Sometimes all that it takes for a good nation to fall to dictatorship is not complicit agreement but complacent silence. It does not matter if that silence is from fear caused by intimidation because once authoritarians win then the fear will truly be far greater.
“The silence of good people is more dangerous than the brutality of bad people.” Martin Luther King
Stay vigilant, people, and express your disapproval of those actions, especially to those who are uncertain.
The Nazis got into power eight years after their original failed coup by using and then turning on the German conservatives and bringing down the German legislature.
There were excellent reasons why the U.S. was pretty much all anti-fa (anti-fascist) in the 1930s and 1940s while we fought the fascist monarchists of the Axis Powers.
Sometimes all that it takes for a good nation to fall to dictatorship is not complicit agreement but complacent silence. It does not matter if that silence is from fear caused by intimidation because once authoritarians win then the fear will truly be far greater.
“The silence of good people is more dangerous than the brutality of bad people.” Martin Luther King
Stay vigilant, people, and express your disapproval of those actions, especially to those who are uncertain.
The Nazis got into power eight years after their original failed coup by using and then turning on the German conservatives and bringing down the German legislature.
There were excellent reasons why the U.S. was pretty much all anti-fa (anti-fascist) in the 1930s and 1940s while we fought the fascist monarchists of the Axis Powers.