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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I am so frightened by what's happening in my country. I never thought in a million years that this would be tolerated for so long. I am deeply saddened that a democracy is starting to look like a dictatorship. It must change at the end of the year. Must! If not, I am going to ask my husband to move to Europe. But even there, I wonder how safe we will be. Putin and his buddy could try to take over the world and create what many would perceive as an evil empire. And you all know who is most hurt under such totalitarian regimes? The perceived "weak" and those that the hierarchy believes as "inferior".
My husband grew up under communism, a country with totalitarian rule. He knows what it looks like and how it operates. He escaped that in search for more freedom. Now, he believes life in his old country may possibly be better for us. Communist rule was broken down by the Velvet Revolution. But is CZ fully safe? The Ukraine is not that far away, and they have been invaded. There were consequences for that invasion, but in the last few years, those consequences have gradually been taken away, to a large degree.
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I share your fear, BirdDancer. And anguish. What is happening right now is tragic and horrifying. Trump is an authoritarian. No different than Erdogan, Putin, Sddm, or Xi. They are all the same. The incinerate human rights, prosecute, imprison, and kill their enemies, and silence the press. He is nothing original.
But, history has very clearly shown us that all authoritarians ultimately fail. The Japanese Empire. Hitler. Stalin. Pol Pot. I could go on all week. Iran and Saudi Arabia? They will totally and absolutel fail. It is just a matter of time.
Human being thirst for freedom of faith and freedom of speech/the press. They will not be denied. Trump and his totalitarian sycophants and pathetic suckups will be destroyed--either peacefully or not remotely peacefully. I hope for the former. And as I have said before, I am a lifelong Republican. Trump is certainly no Republican. He is evil in his moral core.
"The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not," Christopher Hitchens.
Prayers for the United States of America. If he wins, I do believe there will be a civil war. Hope I am wrong.