William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "Authoritarians want us to think that their success is preordained by divine or ...
"Authoritarians want us to think that their success is preordained by divine or secular forces and so there is no point in resisting. Submit to their glory is the message. … Never internalize the strongman’s self-serving fatalism that tells you voting doesn’t matter because the powerful will always prevail."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#authoritarianism #strongman #voting
https://lucid.substack.com/p/authoritarianism-is-not-inevitablePublished at
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