"What is a country? The way its people govern themselves. America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws. The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together.
"The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government deny all of this, and are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation. For them, only a few people, the very wealthy with a certain worldview, have rights, and the first among these is to dominate.
"For them, there is no such thing as an America, or Americans, or democracy, or citizens, and they act accordingly. Now that the oligarchs and their clients are inside the federal government, they are moving, illegally and unconstitutionally, to take over its institutions. [snip]
"All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now. The federal government has immense capacity and control over trillions of dollars. That power was a cocreation of the American people. It belongs to them. The oligarchs around Trump are working now to take it for themselves.
"Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard
to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs
have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the
rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the
existing order. They want disorder in which their relative power will
grow..." -- excerpt from Timothy Snyder's timely must- read "The Logic of Destruction" essay at his "Thinking About" substack. Snyder also provides "how to resist it" ideas for pushing back individually and collectively. Please take a few minutes and see what else Snyder has to say about the coup underway and how we can respond. Then respond!
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