The Irish called it “Irish Democracy” when they were under British rule, the silent, dogged resistance of millions who simply ignored laws they found illegitimate. Don’t protest. Don’t riot. Just don’t comply.
We already have two incompatible visions of what America should be. One side wants a multi-ethnic democracy with a social safety net. The other wants a white Christian ethnostate with unlimited corporate power. These cannot coexist indefinitely.
Okay, but that’s also not true. The “blue” states are more than happy to extend unlimited corporate power to right-wing plutocrats. Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Big Three Auto Giants are all based out of Liberal turf. They’re centered in bright blue municipalities, even. The liberal institutionalists don’t seem to lift a finger for fear of wounding the Golden Geese of industrial fascism.
Blue states could request UN election monitoring.
The OSCE and the OAS already employ election monitors within the US.
The author of this article seems deeply misinformed. Neither can I find any corroboration of the research findings. I can only note that countries like South Korea, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico all ultimately ousted their fascist dictatorships and resumed a semblance of democratic function within a decade or two of their coups.
Fascism isn’t a permanent state of affairs nor is it a particularly stable form of governance (particularly over continental-sized landmasses). Fascist state leaderships can and do fail, paving the way for reformists and revolutionaries of varying stripes. And those reforms/revolutions can, in turn, fail and give birth to new generations of fascist government.
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Okay, but that’s also not true. The “blue” states are more than happy to extend unlimited corporate power to right-wing plutocrats. Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Big Three Auto Giants are all based out of Liberal turf. They’re centered in bright blue municipalities, even. The liberal institutionalists don’t seem to lift a finger for fear of wounding the Golden Geese of industrial fascism.
The OSCE and the OAS already employ election monitors within the US.
The author of this article seems deeply misinformed. Neither can I find any corroboration of the research findings. I can only note that countries like South Korea, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico all ultimately ousted their fascist dictatorships and resumed a semblance of democratic function within a decade or two of their coups.
Fascism isn’t a permanent state of affairs nor is it a particularly stable form of governance (particularly over continental-sized landmasses). Fascist state leaderships can and do fail, paving the way for reformists and revolutionaries of varying stripes. And those reforms/revolutions can, in turn, fail and give birth to new generations of fascist government.