{"id":32605,"date":"2024-11-05T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=32605"},"modified":"2024-11-05T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:52:59","slug":"democracy-or-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/democracy-or-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy or Fascism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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W<\/span>e are, today, watching the most momentous decision that Americans have had to make<\/strong> in the entirety of their \u2014 and my own \u2014 lifetimes. Compared to the choice between Harris and felon Trump, all other elections seem almost inconsequential. That’s because never before was the whole fabric of democracy at risk. Never before has an openly racist, misogynist, totalitarian, cognitively-addled felon come so close to winning the presidency. Never before has the entire American experiment been on the scales.<\/p>\n

The choices are stark: between hope and despair; between optimism and negativity; between unity and division; between inclusion and exclusion; between women’s rights and a repressive misogyny; between collective goals and toxic, divisive racism; between a promise of a bright economic future and a dismal inflationary downturn; between comprehensive, well laid-out policies and the vague notion of a ‘concept of a policy;’ between laughter and insult; between pride in your nation and calling your nation a ‘garbage can;’ between surrounding oneself with experts and experienced people to help run the country or with unqualified cronies, family members, and campaign donors; between racial equality and white supremacism; between real faith and pseudo-Christian Talibangelism; between a prosecutor and a sexual predator; between the rule of law and the rule of the dictator; between a woman who wants everyone to prosper and a man who wants only himself to do so.<\/p>\n

The choice is between intelligent, educated, accomplished, respected Kamala Harris and the serial adulterer, serial liar, pro-Putin, con artist, business failure, shoe salesman grifter, best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, and aged felon in severe cognitive decline, Donald Trump. That’s a choice between democracy and fascism.<\/p>\n

On his Public Notice blog<\/a>, Stephen Robinson asked, “Will America become Russia?” He wrote (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

A persistent theme at any Trump rally is MAGA\u2019s utter contempt for America, which Donald Trump has repeatedly called a \u201cgarbage can for the world.\u201d
\nThe MAGA movement is actively hostile to the America that currently exists \u2014 a diverse, inclusive multicultural democracy (even if it\u2019s hanging by a thread). So on Election Day, it\u2019s worth unpacking the ways in which Trump offers his supporters the promise of an America that\u2019s eerily similar to Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, a white male-dominated kleptocracy with rampant cronyism and corruption where a not-so-free press submits to the will of an authoritarian ruler.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So choose wisely, America. Today defines your future. There won’t be a choice in the future if you choose Trump. You will not be able to turn back to democracy if you don’t choose it today. The rest of the world is watching. Intensely. Our future depends on it, too.<\/p>\n

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We are, today, watching the most momentous decision that Americans have had to make in the entirety of their \u2014 and my own \u2014 lifetimes. Compared to the choice between Harris and felon Trump, all other elections seem almost inconsequential. That’s because never before was the whole fabric of democracy at risk. Never before has an openly racist, misogynist, totalitarian, cognitively-addled felon come so close to winning the presidency. Never before has the entire American experiment been on the scales. The choices are stark: between hope and despair; between optimism and negativity; between unity and division; between inclusion and exclusion; \u2026…… click below for more \u2193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1973,761,62,219],"tags":[1999,1808,1768,707,1785],"class_list":["post-32605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maga-cultists","category-musings","category-world-politics","category-us-international-politics","tag-choices","tag-christofascists","tag-maga","tag-trump","tag-vote"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":418,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32605"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32614,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32605\/revisions\/32614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}