Robert Reich: 15 warning signs of impending Trump tyranny
As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically do these 15 things
ROBERT REICH
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.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities and refugees bans.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals into top civilian posts.
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
Consider yourself warned.
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/04/robert-reich-15-warning-signs-of-impending-trump-tyranny_partner/
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)2naSalit
(86,612 posts)already in the werks.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)he's hitting all points
milestogo
(16,829 posts)but I doubt he reads.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)days he's become more disturbed about what Trump might do than all the time before.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)It keeps getting worse and worse.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Not just signs of tyranny: fast turning into the epitome of tyranny.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Or maybe all narcissists are tyrants.
Myrddin
(327 posts)... also apply to the Brexit process, and its leadership!
I will always maintain that Brexit is, fundamentally, a right-wing coup, disguised as 'taking back control'?
All vehement Brexiteer Politicians have always been outspoken opponents of social protection policies, and they despised the EU for obstructing their neo-liberal aims.