Future Resident Rectum, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, the Reich on the right that is always wrong is already exhibiting the behavior of past fascist and National Socialist tyrants. Robert Reich, the Reich on the left that is always right, has listed fifteen warning signs we are seeing.
As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically:
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties…
From <Robert Reich>
Click through for the other seven. Robert Reich is spot-on for each in his analysis of every one of them. You can use this information to keep publicizing the fascist roots of these actions, as we can be sure he will commit several daily.
10 Responses to “Warning Signs of Republican Tyranny”
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Yes, I feel the doom and gloom a'coming!
Now…we RESIST!!
(passing this on too).
Oh yeah, this is a keeper. Robert is absolutely right on. And we need not only to know it but to keep reminding ourselves.
RESIST !!!
This is why we need to build the resistance NOW!
The Empty Orange is chanelling Hitler! One of Hitler's trademarks was "the big lie." As Rumpy appears to be doing, or preparing to do on a bigger scale, is to NOT allow standard protocol to stand in his way, just as Hitler did not let the government bury him under the "ususal" need to be spending time signing run of the mill papers, attending to the myriad details of office, etc. He ran things as he wanted to, (See "Inside the Third Reich") just as the newest GOPig saint, Putin seems to do.
In my best "Beavis & Butthead" voice:
Uh-Huh-Huh … You said "Rectum"
("EWWWWWW"s are a given)
A walking, talking asshole!
I don't think I needed a warning, but kudos to Robert Reich for nailing the Republican tyranny that is upon you.
Spot on Robert Reich . . . as usual!
On #1, I did hear Drumpf say "landslide victory in the EC" recently trying to justify his existence,
Resist!!!
Thannks and Amen to all!!
RESIST!!!