This piece isn’t about fear as an abstract idea. It’s about what happens when people begin to withdraw from public life, from community, and from civic participation.
It is my opinion we need to recognize the danger of intimidation becoming normalized.
I just listened to HCR and Joanne Freeman’s Saturday morning chat, “What the Heck Just Happened?” There’s a paragraph in the discussion from the transcript that describes the acts of a tyrant from the Declaration of Independence! It could be describing this regime! Truly compelling.
The colonists first came to America to escape tyrannical rule. So, when our Founding Fathers sought to establish a new government, they worked to make sure power could not be concentrated by an individual or even a few people.
The Roberts court threw that out the window with their immunity ruling where an administration is now a regime, feeling emboldened to do what ever it wants without fear of prosecution.
This is not what the framers of our Constitution envisioned for us.
This piece isn’t about fear as an abstract idea. It’s about what happens when people begin to withdraw from public life, from community, and from civic participation.
It is my opinion we need to recognize the danger of intimidation becoming normalized.
Robert Reich just posted this video on his Instagram which is congruent with this post
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTiZfAuFJBw/?igsh=MWlvYW1xZmpydDlvZg==
I just listened to HCR and Joanne Freeman’s Saturday morning chat, “What the Heck Just Happened?” There’s a paragraph in the discussion from the transcript that describes the acts of a tyrant from the Declaration of Independence! It could be describing this regime! Truly compelling.
The colonists first came to America to escape tyrannical rule. So, when our Founding Fathers sought to establish a new government, they worked to make sure power could not be concentrated by an individual or even a few people.
The Roberts court threw that out the window with their immunity ruling where an administration is now a regime, feeling emboldened to do what ever it wants without fear of prosecution.
This is not what the framers of our Constitution envisioned for us.