American Democracy Will Die In 100 Days

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Not long ago, I would have written this off as hysteria.

Not anymore. Not at all. I sense it coming and if we don't do something, this will be it for the United States we knew.

American Democracy Will Die in 100 Days

American Democracy Will Die in 100 Days

…Unless Americans Start Understanding How to Fight Nazism — Now

Americans being abducted off the streets. A mayor being attacked with chemical agents. Secret Police, otherwise known as “Homeland Security,” occupying cities. And an aspiring dictator behind it all. Here’s a bitter truth, made of five smaller ones. America now has 100 days to save its democracy.

Even if, at this late juncture, Americans begin to fight for their democracy, there’s no guarantee of success. Nonetheless. This upcoming election is America’s last chance.
To those of us who lived through authoritarian collapses — and survived them — what’s going to happen in America over the next six months is as simple as it is predictable. That’s not to be a know-it-all blowhard. It’s to warn you.

Fact one. Trump is going to try to steal the election. If this were any other President, I myself would dismiss such an idea as crackpot conspiratorialism. But Trumps not any other President. He’s a man who’s checked every item off the list of Nazi politics, from camps to bans to raids to purges. He’s announced proudly that he doesn’t believe in democracy, or the Constitution, and wants to keep power for as long as he can.

When authoritarians tell you what they are going to do, believe them. They’re like mafiosi: they have to follow through on their threats or they lose all credibility. So when Trump says he’s not going to accede to a peaceful transfer of power, believe him. Americans have spent too long playing dumb, not believing Trump at any stage of collapse so far, from camps to bans to purges — and now it’s almost too late.

Fact two. Trump is still within striking distance of being able to steal the election. Don’t count him out yet, just because he’s sunk a little in the polls. He’s still got an Army of American Idiots behind him — about 40% or so of Americans. That number, it seems, is a hard floor — it doesn’t budge, no matter what. The whys and wherefores — these are mentally broken people regressed to infantile psychologies, who regard Trump as an unconscious omnipotent father figure — are now irrelevant. What is relevant is that thanks to the vagaries of America’s electoral college, Trump can still squeeze out a narrow victory, especially with a little help from Zuck and the Kremlin. Or a narrow enough loss that it can be contested to high heaven — and then turned into a victory thanks to a stacked Supreme Court and a supine Senate.

Don’t count Trump out.

Fact three. This is how authoritarians steal elections: with creeping martial law. Those storm troopers on Portland’s streets, abducting people, beating moms, gassing the mayor? That’s exactly — exactly — how authoritarians institute martial law. Not like in the movies — suddenly. But slowly, one step at a time. One city, town, set of shock troops at a time. Their power are expanded. Your rights are eroded. And before anyone knows it — you’re living in a police state, a place where people feel afraid to express themselves, organize, protest, dissent, vote.

Trump is instituting martial law right before a crucial election that will decide the fate of democracy in America for at least a generation. Probably longer. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a culmination. Of what? Of Trump’s Nazi politics. Camps, bans, raids, purges, institutionalized hate, paramilitaries and secret police — all that’s a pattern. What does it culminate in? The next step of the sequence of implosion. The final seizure of power.

That is what this pattern has been leading up to for four solid years now. It’s what those of us who’ve lived through authoritarian collapses have been trying to warn you of — and failing, because we’ve been dismissed as “alarmists” by mainstream pundits. But by now, I’d bet, you’re pretty goddamned alarmed. You should be, because this is all very real. Those of us who know know because we’ve lived it, and what we know is that collapse proceeds according to a predictable and time-honored pattern. In America, it couldn’t have been any clearer, which is why us survivors of authoritarianism have been trying to warn you as loudly as we can — even if it cost us personally.

That brings me to fact four.

Fact four. Americans have been in denial about what Trumpism really is. What kind of people build…actual concentration camps? Put kids in them? Rip them from their mothers? Set up Gestapos to hunt them in the streets?

There’s only one word for such people. Nazis. That’s one of history’s great lessons — and Americans are the world’s laughingstocks at this point because they’re the only people left in the world who don’t get that this is Nazism reborn. The only people. Like I say, every single person I know asks me why Americans don’t get it every single day now. I’m not exaggerating when I say that. What the? By now, you can see openly and in shocking, weird, and frightening ways that Trumpists really are Nazis. For example, they call slavery a “necessary evil.” For example, they wear swastika masks to Walmart. For example, their Gestapo destroys medical supplies during a pandemic — which is a literal war crime.

Trumpism is American Nazism. Maybe not all Trumpists think of themselves that way — but so what? If you’re happy with Gestapos beating moms and gassing mayors, and kids in concentration camps, guess what…you’re a Nazi. The good American — the non-Trumpist, the one who still believes in democracy and freedom — now has just 100 days to emerge from their foxholes of denial, and begin acting like they finally get that this is America’s final showdown with American Nazism.

If Americans really understood that — and they don’t — what would they do?
That brings me to my fifth fact. Americans aren’t fighting authoritarianism yet — not the way it needs to be fought. And that is a consequence of four long, terrible, painful years of denial.
Look, in any sane nation, Trump would not be the head of state anymore. If Justin Trudeau had gassed mayors…he’d have had to resign tomorrow. If Emanuel Macron had let 150,000 people die of Covid — he’d have been thrown out of office swiftly. If Angela Merkel had ripped kids from their parents and put them in concentration camps, she’d have been tried in German courts for fascism.

People would have lined the streets of Paris, Berlin, and Toronto, day after day — until these leaders resigned.

If Americans really understood that this was their final showdown with Nazism — they’d demand scalps. That Trump resign. That all his white supremacist advisors be thrown out of office — and never find work or friends in society again. They’d line the streets of every major American city. There would be a mass movement calling for the end of American Nazism — politically, culturally, and socially. Millions would park themselves in front of the White House, and not leave until the job was done.

There are stirrings of that, in protest growing across the nation. But so far, they aren’t calling for Trump to resign. What the? Why not? But that’s the point.

The best way to defeat Trump in the upcoming election is to checkmate him — not to have him in one.

That’s how you play this game — because it’s the precise opposite of what he wants, after all. What does he really want? Not to have an election at all, or to postpone it. Maybe Covid will be the pretext. Or maybe it’s the way he’s amping up tensions with China. Maybe it will just be “law and order.” Would you be surprised if Trump tried to cancel the election? Of course not. Nobody sane would be. He’s said he doesn’t want one, more or less, over and over again. That’s how authoritarians usually make their final seizure of power — they don’t win elections, they steal them, thwart them, or destroy them.

Trump is trying to checkmate American democracy. Why else is he sending storm troopers nationwide just before a crucial election? So that — if he can get away with it — there isn’t one, and if he can’t get away with that, so he can terrorize people into not voting.

What’s the best way to deal with that? One way is to encourage people to vote and so forth — to mobilize. But that’s a weak strategy at best, because Trump holds all the cards. He’s the one with the storm troopers and the terror tactics.

The best strategy Americans have right now is to make it impossible for Trump to contest the next election at all, by calling for his resignation — now. That should have happened long ago. Like I said, no other rich nation, and not even most poor ones, would have tolerated what Trump’s gotten away with to date, and I don’t mean the small abuses of power, like bribery and playing golf while the nation burns, I mean the big ones, like camps, Gestapos, storm troopers, and mass death.

“How is this lunatic still in power?!,” the entire world asks, baffled. “Why don’t Americans remove him?” What the world doesn’t understand about Americans is that they’ve been abused by their leaders so long they’ve forgotten how to take power back from failed elites. You don’t have to wait for an election that’s going to be rigged, manipulated, terrorized, and hijacked. You can demand a failed President resign now.

Maybe I’m being optimistic. Still, don’t imagine that I’m telling Americans what to do. Rather, I’m pointing out what a saner nation would have already done. And I’m pointing out the best way to save a democracy that’s in deep, deep peril.

If Americans don’t begin calling for Trump to resign, in a powerful mass movement, then the next six months, after all, are eminently predictable. Those storm troopers being abducting people and beating moms and gassing mayors across the nation. Opponents and critics and dissidents begin getting disappeared to God-knows-where, under the pretext of “homeland security.” Meanwhile, Trump’s buddies in the Kremlin flood social media with disinformation — while Zuck grins and checks his bank account. The Trumpists — the American Nazis — simmer with rage, anticipating the sweet taste of total power.

In the lead-up to election day, the nation’s on fire. Beatings and disappearances and abductions and gassings are now everyday events. Nobody knows what to do, and an atmosphere of frustration, bewilderment, and anger reign. Trump’s tricks have worked. People have been terrorized. Trumpists join storm troopers in intimidating and frightening everyone else. It’s open season, and “law and order” now means the right to abuse and terrorize anyone who’s not part of America’s Nazi movement.

America’s spirit has been broken.

And when election day finally comes, Trump knows his storm troopers, his propagandists, his Idiot Army — all that can eke out enough of a margin for him to steal the election, if not win it outright.

Bang! And then there is no more American democracy for a generation. Trump is America’s Saddam, it’s Gaddafi, and after him come a long retinue of kids and advisors, even more demented and bloodthirsty than him.

That’s how it works.

That’s what us survivors of authoritarian collapse have to warn you of. If any of that sounds outlandish, to you, still, then let me ask you. Did you think, five years ago, that America would be here? That Donald Trump would be sending his…shock troops…to gas American mayors…while mass death surged? What the?

Your rational side is not your ally right now, because you haven’t lived through this. It’s not helping you to overthink what’s about to happen — because Trump and his army of American Nazis aren’t exactly logical. Your rational side has underestimated American Nazism over the last four years for exactly that reason. But there is no more room for mistakes now.

Those of us who’ve survived all this before — we are trying to share our experience with you. Because we need to, because it’s what decent and sane people must do. And that experience can be summed up in three short principles. It’s always worse — much worse — than your rational side thinks. It’s always as bad as — or worse than — your worst, hidden fears. And when you put those two things together, the only conclusion is: you’d better act like this is your last chance to remain a functioning and free society.

Because it is.
 

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Or perhaps some quite valid observations and concerns that SOME may be all to quick to dismiss. Only that he was not entirely correct in stating that "Americans have been in denial about what Trumpism really is."

SOME of us have been seeing (even anticipated) what has been happening AND what that foretold... for quite some time now.

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And yet the left democrats and big tech want to control your speech and what you hear and see in the media and online, the Dems want socialist policies, more taxes that go nowhere, and drop the tariffs on imports basically giving America over to China and Mexico. You guys are way too rich for my blood. Bwahahahaha!!!! Secret police too funny.
 

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And people wonder why some don't see it that way when they are being brainwashed daily by alternative facts showing benign and false interpretations of Trump's behavior on fake news sources.

There is a real threat here, more in relation to Trump trying to de-legitimatize an election result than from cheating to a win. But a serious threat nonetheless. I don't think one can be faulted for erring on the side of over-alarmism. In a circumstance like this, complacency is unacceptable.
 

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The DNC tried to de-legitimatize the last election. The spent 3.5 years trying to do it. Every attempt not only failed but then turned out to be rigged or staged by members of the DNC. The DNC is a failed party, they can’t run their cities and keep their citizens safe, they can’t run their states anymore. They can’t an election anymore, they have no honest candidates, and even with the Clintons on their side they can’t even successfully stage fake evidence properly to ensure convictions against people. My god come to think of it, they can’t even stage a successful fake hate crime anymore nor successfully burry or coverup in the legal system to make it disappear. But somehow these criminals are not the serious problem with elections.
 

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Yes, because I have common sense. And common sense tells us that the FBI can’t search 300,000 unsecured emails for compromised classified material in less than 3 days just so someone can be cleared in time for a presidential candidate announcement. And that’s just one of hundreds and hundreds of shady things that makes people go “huh what, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right”. Right now the DNC, the far left and Joe Biden’s un scripted mouth are the best thing Trump’s re-election has going for it.

but hey go ahead and name some Republican controlled cities that have had all the attacks, riots, shootings, deaths/murders from those shootings, property damage, fires, and invaded sections of cities where they put up WALLS and BOARDERS and used ASSAULT RIFLES to keep others out. (feel the irony)
 
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Or perhaps some quite valid observations and concerns that SOME may be all to quick to dismiss. Only that he was not entirely correct in stating that "Americans have been in denial about what Trumpism really is."

SOME of us have been seeing (even anticipated) what has been happening AND what that foretold... for quite some time now.

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And all running under the Stars and Stripes mantra we’re saving America from “those people”. It’s faux ideals of freedom and democracy conveniently flushed down the drain.
 

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The DNC tried to de-legitimatize the last election. The spent 3.5 years trying to do it. Every attempt not only failed but then turned out to be rigged or staged by members of the DNC. The DNC is a failed party, they can’t run their cities and keep their citizens safe, they can’t run their states anymore. They can’t an election anymore, they have no honest candidates, and even with the Clintons on their side they can’t even successfully stage fake evidence properly to ensure convictions against people. My god come to think of it, they can’t even stage a successful fake hate crime anymore nor successfully burry or coverup in the legal system to make it disappear. But somehow these criminals are not the serious problem with elections.

Where to start? Oh yeah . . . don't.
 

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And that’s just one of hundreds and hundreds of shady things that makes people go “huh what, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right”.
  • Trump Foundation was “shut down for its misconduct.” Fraud.
  • Trump University sued and closed for defrauding students.
  • Illegal hush money payments to porn stars
  • Jared Kushner's security clearance
  • Re-tweeting QAnon supporters on multiple occasions; inviting them to speak at his rallies; and hosting them at the WH
  • Cut-and running out on Kurdish allies in the middle east
  • Which brings to mind the whole Trump-Putin relationship
  • The Ukrainian affair
  • Floating the idea of delaying federal elections
  • The hydroxychloroquine miracle cure
  • Ivanka's email server
  • Billionaire who brags on about his wealth, but won't show off his tax returns
  • Draft dodger
  • "Man of the Bible" who cannot name even one of his favorite Bible verses
  • "Businessman" who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 yrs
  • "Genius" who hides his college grades
  • "Staunch Republican" who donated to Democrats at all gov’t levels
  • Chain migration of his wife's family members
  • Nepotism
  • Evidence of money laundering at Trump Tower and other properties
  • 8 American associates convicted of federal crimes, plus 26 Russians charged or indicted.
  • "Russia if you're listening"
None of those made you go, “huh what, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right”? Never? If not, why not?

If you answer please don't give me the weak "What About Hillary!!?" routine. She's not the president.

Yes, because I have common sense.
Obviously not, seeing as you intend to vote for the grifters a second time. Pure idiocy.[/QUOTE]

Right now the DNC, the far left and Joe Biden’s un scripted mouth are the best thing Trump’s re-election has going for it.
So it follows that if the far left and Biden's mouth are the "best thing" his campaign has going for it, he'd be doing even worse without them. You better pray for more riots and for Joe to stay off script.
 
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Well Biden’s mouth, the DNC, the far left, and people like you that make it up as you go along. Oh wait that is what the DNC and the far left does. So nothing new there. And when did trump become authoritarian? He’s following federal law and keeping his citizens safe because well the democrat mayors are either incapable of doing it or are unwilling to do it. But hey I guess if your a dem and live in a dem city then you’re ok with being the victim of stray gunfire from a peaceful protester that doesn’t have an AK-47 but when you see his picture he really does have one and is pointing it into a car with a family in it. Man I’m glad I’m a republican where I can walk down the road and not have to worry about being shot by ANTIFA, BLM rioters, or misc gang related drive by’s that keep hitting other people while trying to hit the person they want to kill. It’s tragic that so many innocents have lost their lives in Dem controlled cities, but you don’t want to deal with or accept that your party is responsible for loosing control and allowing it to happen, you all do the easy thing and sit in your chair and blame trump on the internet.
 

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On topic, you are completely right Jyaku. I apologize, I had not read your rant. I lived under Tayip Erdoğan for many years and watched the way the demagogue worked and you are correct, step by step, they use free speech and democracy to defeat democracy. Then there's no more free speech because the dictator's corporate vassals buy up print and broadcast media and then he has complete control. Those who disagree are "terrorists, anarchists, elites, unpatriotic, murders, rapists, corrupt"... you name it, they are it. Bad hombres. Lock them up.

Erdoğan is quoted as saying "Democracy is like a bus. When it arrives at my destination, I will get off it."

He held a corrupt referendum to to change the constitutional system from a parliamentary democracy, to more of a federal system giving the Executive way more power and set it up so that his previous service as Prime Minister and President, 16 years I think, didn't count and he gets to start over under the new constitution. A do over that can keep Tayip in the palace until 2029.

Trump is a ham-fisted amateur really. But he could try to get away with something.
#americawakeup
 
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Well Biden’s mouth, the DNC, the far left, and people like you that make it up as you go along. Oh wait that is what the DNC and the far left does. So nothing new there. And when did trump become authoritarian? He’s following federal law and keeping his citizens safe because well the democrat mayors are either incapable of doing it or are unwilling to do it. But hey I guess if your a dem and live in a dem city then you’re ok with being the victim of stray gunfire from a peaceful protester that doesn’t have an AK-47 but when you see his picture he really does have one and is pointing it into a car with a family in it. Man I’m glad I’m a republican where I can walk down the road and not have to worry about being shot by ANTIFA, BLM rioters, or misc gang related drive by’s that keep hitting other people while trying to hit the person they want to kill. It’s tragic that so many innocents have lost their lives in Dem controlled cities, but you don’t want to deal with or accept that your party is responsible for loosing control and allowing it to happen, you all do the easy thing and sit in your chair and blame trump on the internet.
This is so full of half truths ... no wonder you're allied with the Liar In Chief.
 

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This is so full of half truths ... no wonder you're allied with the Liar In Chief.


Let us be clear. A half truth is not true, it is just a polite name for either a lie or stupidity. Around here, I call it 'willful ignorance.'
 

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  • Trump Foundation was “shut down for its misconduct.” Fraud.
  • Trump University sued and closed for defrauding students.
  • Illegal hush money payments to porn stars
  • Jared Kushner's security clearance
  • Re-tweeting QAnon supporters on multiple occasions; inviting them to speak at his rallies; and hosting them at the WH
  • Cut-and running out on Kurdish allies in the middle east
  • Which brings to mind the whole Trump-Putin relationship
  • The Ukrainian affair
  • Floating the idea of delaying federal elections
  • The hydroxychloroquine miracle cure
  • Ivanka's email server
  • Billionaire who brags on about his wealth, but won't show off his tax returns
  • Draft dodger
  • "Man of the Bible" who cannot name even one of his favorite Bible verses
  • "Businessman" who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 yrs
  • "Genius" who hides his college grades
  • "Staunch Republican" who donated to Democrats at all gov’t levels
  • Chain migration of his wife's family members
  • Nepotism
  • Evidence of money laundering at Trump Tower and other properties
  • 8 American associates convicted of federal crimes, plus 26 Russians charged or indicted.
  • "Russia if you're listening"
None of those made you go, “huh what, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right”? Never? If not, why not?

If you answer please don't give me the weak "What About Hillary!!?" routine. She's not the president.

Obviously not, seeing as you intend to vote for the grifters a second time. Pure idiocy.

So it follows that if the far left and Biden's mouth are the "best thing" his campaign has going for it, he'd be doing even worse without them. You better pray for more riots and for Joe to stay off script.[/QUOTE]

Campaigned like hell to have three young black kids executed for a crime they did not commit.
 
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