V-Dem Institute in Sweden moved the USA from liberal democracy to electoral democracy. Next step down is electoral autocracy. And we cannot let that happen.
Yes, so we have not been simply shouting into the wind.
After Trump’s first inanities then undemocratic insanities — first, the shock, then comparing notes & reading more … discussions become more intense, as did demonstrations - eventually arriving at the approx conclusions you have explained here. (A rose by any other name …) 🌺
I wonder how many in Trump’s admin realize what they’re working toward, or how many are just unsuspecting ‘cogs in the wheel’, there more for their individual benefit & the heady power?
Temporarily & in a limited fashion, I am rooting for the Iranians — they have the power to make Trump (and associates) ‘come undone’ — a potential eventual benefit to the entire world!
I’m also glad not everyone has listened to Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” This has blunted the impact of his current senseless Gulf war, at least for those who saw the ecological ‘writing on the wall’ and continued with their alternative energy endeavors.
Yes, I think some know exactly what they are serving, and some are opportunists telling themselves they are only doing a job. History is full of systems built by people who mistook personal advantage for innocence. On energy, that is also true: the clean energy transition has enough momentum that even destructive politics has not fully stopped it. That may matter more than we realize.
V-Dem Institute in Sweden moved the USA from liberal democracy to electoral democracy. Next step down is electoral autocracy. And we cannot let that happen.
“The decline is visible enough to be tracked.”
Yes, so we have not been simply shouting into the wind.
After Trump’s first inanities then undemocratic insanities — first, the shock, then comparing notes & reading more … discussions become more intense, as did demonstrations - eventually arriving at the approx conclusions you have explained here. (A rose by any other name …) 🌺
I wonder how many in Trump’s admin realize what they’re working toward, or how many are just unsuspecting ‘cogs in the wheel’, there more for their individual benefit & the heady power?
Temporarily & in a limited fashion, I am rooting for the Iranians — they have the power to make Trump (and associates) ‘come undone’ — a potential eventual benefit to the entire world!
I’m also glad not everyone has listened to Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” This has blunted the impact of his current senseless Gulf war, at least for those who saw the ecological ‘writing on the wall’ and continued with their alternative energy endeavors.
Yes, I think some know exactly what they are serving, and some are opportunists telling themselves they are only doing a job. History is full of systems built by people who mistook personal advantage for innocence. On energy, that is also true: the clean energy transition has enough momentum that even destructive politics has not fully stopped it. That may matter more than we realize.