Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "We all can see the way that the billionaires are kissing his feet right now, and it ...
"We all can see the way that the billionaires are kissing his feet right now, and it seems to be because they fear the kinds of deployment of state power against them. That is possible, right? Does it mean that Mark Zuckerberg is going to be frog-marched out of Meta headquarters in handcuffs?
No, but that kind of make an example of just a few people can be quite powerful. So even these starting points could really shape our politics and can contaminate them an important way. We’re really losing something when people have to think, should I participate in politics given the risk that I could be financially ruined by an investigation or even prosecuted or even jailed and convicted? That has not been on the table in the post-Watergate United States, and now it is, and it will be as soon as those first norms start to fall. So I don’t want to minimize that point. I apologize for belaboring it, but I think it’s really critical to think about it. Some of the other kinds of scenarios that we surveyed people about once we adjust for the kind of expert tendency towards pessimism that we can talk about, the adjusted probabilities are under 50%. There’s lots of things Trump will not follow through on just like in his first term. So it will be important to calibrate and to think really carefully about what the risks are.
But I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that even some of these events being more unlikely than likely, it doesn’t make it okay"
https://www.niskanencenter.org/threats-to-democracy-in-the-2nd-trump-administration/
#USA #Trump #Democracy #Authoritarianism
No, but that kind of make an example of just a few people can be quite powerful. So even these starting points could really shape our politics and can contaminate them an important way. We’re really losing something when people have to think, should I participate in politics given the risk that I could be financially ruined by an investigation or even prosecuted or even jailed and convicted? That has not been on the table in the post-Watergate United States, and now it is, and it will be as soon as those first norms start to fall. So I don’t want to minimize that point. I apologize for belaboring it, but I think it’s really critical to think about it. Some of the other kinds of scenarios that we surveyed people about once we adjust for the kind of expert tendency towards pessimism that we can talk about, the adjusted probabilities are under 50%. There’s lots of things Trump will not follow through on just like in his first term. So it will be important to calibrate and to think really carefully about what the risks are.
But I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that even some of these events being more unlikely than likely, it doesn’t make it okay"
https://www.niskanencenter.org/threats-to-democracy-in-the-2nd-trump-administration/
#USA #Trump #Democracy #Authoritarianism