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07-02-2017, 03:40 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ocracy/513872/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/)
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.
A president determined to thwart the law to protect himself and those in his circle has many means to do so.
Civil unrest will not be a problem for the Trump presidency. It will be a resource. Trump will likely want to enflame more of it.
A would-be kleptocrat is better served by spreading cynicism than by deceiving followers.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?240762-How-to-build-an-autocracy&goto=newpost).
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ocracy/513872/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/)
“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.
A president determined to thwart the law to protect himself and those in his circle has many means to do so.
Civil unrest will not be a problem for the Trump presidency. It will be a resource. Trump will likely want to enflame more of it.
A would-be kleptocrat is better served by spreading cynicism than by deceiving followers.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?240762-How-to-build-an-autocracy&goto=newpost).