15 hallmarks of Authoritarianism. Written in 2016 and Trump/GOP has already fulfilled 10 of them.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/predictions-in-an-activists-15-point-guide-to-surviving-authoritarianism-proved-frighteningly-accurate-after-trumps-first-year/

1. They will come to power with a campaign based on fear, scaremongering and distorting the truth.

2. They will divide and rule.
You will be labelled as traitors, enemies of the state, unpatriotic, the corrupt elite, the old regime trying to regain power. Their supporters will be the “people,” the “sovereign” who chose their leaders.

3. Through convoluted laws and threats they will try to control mainstream media and limit press freedom.
They will ban critical press from their briefings... They will brand those media as “unpatriotic,” acting against the People (see point 2).

4. They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger.

5. They will distort the truth, deny facts and blatantly lie.

6. They will incite and then leak fake, superficial “scandals.”

7. They will propose shocking laws to provoke your outrage.
You will focus your efforts on fighting them, so they will seemingly back off, giving you a false sense of victory. In the meantime they will push through less “flashy” legislation, slowly dismantling democracy (see points 4 and 6).

8. When invading your liberal sensibilities they will focus on what hurts the most — women and minorities.
They will act as if democracy was majority rule without respect for the minority.

9. They will try to take control of the judiciary.

10. They will try to limit freedom of assembly, calling it a necessity for your security.

11. They will distort the language, coin new terms and labels, repeat shocking phrases until you accept them as normal and subconsciously associate them with whom they like.

12. They will take over your national symbols, associate them with their regime, remake them into attributes of their power.
They want you to forget that your flag, your anthem and your symbols belong to you, the people, to everyone equally.

13. They will try to rewrite history to suit their needs and use the education system to support their agenda.

14. They will alienate foreign allies and partners, convincing you that you don’t need them.

15. They will eventually manipulate the electoral system.



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By my count, 10 points have come true.

[bunny planet]

1. by my count

they've fulfilled all 15.....

[WhiteTara]

2. mine too.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Yes, I can't think of one they haven't fulfilled.

We've arrived.

[dewsgirl]

4. Yep they are working hard on all 15.

[AmericanActivist]

5. Thanks for this reminder nm