William Lindsey :toad:
"As we prepare to begin this fight with the incredible gift of a bit of time to prepare for what we know is coming, we must not be naive or compromised. We must understand that Donald Trump is only possible because Americans have rejected principles. Self-proclaimed Christians have embraced domination over love."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #ChristianNationalism #HumanRights
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/to-defeat-trump-we-must-repair-what
William Lindsey :toad:
Timothy Snyder has continued a series about Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and it's application to the US right now. I posted an excerpt from part 1 recently. In part two, he notes that some commentators want to read the book, which is explicitly about a Christian reconstructionist takeover of the US, as a parable about Islam! He says,
"We are a few cast stones away from Gilead, a repressive and failing regime."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s first mistake with Donald Trump, she writes in her memoir, was treating him as if he were 'completely normal', but she quickly learned of his 'emotional' nature and soft spot for authoritarians."
~ Jem Bartholomew
William Lindsey :toad:
"Self-professed conservatives have embraced dictatorship over pretensions of governmental restraint. And America, in general, has rejected our responsibility to advance—or at least not reverse—the cause of human rights."
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #ChristianNationalism #HumanRights
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William Lindsey :toad:
"It is frustrating and, frankly, frightening that the defense of basic rights and democratic self-government against the authoritarian onslaught depends so much on powerful individuals and institutions that have so far proved largely unable and/or unwilling to model anything but normalcy, compliance, and acquiescence. We need and deserve better."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #normalization #HumanRights
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/elite-acquiescence-and-treacherous
William Lindsey :toad:
"In the novel The Handmaid's Tale, people very much like Hegseth come to power, oppress women, and turn the armed forces into domestic shock troops who fight a civil war. It is important to see accusations of sexual assault and Hegseth's persistent polygamy in this light: the notion that women are just objects goes hand in hand with the idea that the real fight for American soldiers is against other Americans."
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