I understand the feeling of screaming into the wind about the rise of fascism. Between the obvious lies that got us into the Iraq war to SCOTUS overturning Citizens United, I've been on red alert.
I'm actually surprised that Trump has not ignored SCOTUS (by the end of the first week he'd gotten rid of anyone who could enforce judgements b…
I understand the feeling of screaming into the wind about the rise of fascism. Between the obvious lies that got us into the Iraq war to SCOTUS overturning Citizens United, I've been on red alert.
I'm actually surprised that Trump has not ignored SCOTUS (by the end of the first week he'd gotten rid of anyone who could enforce judgements by the courts) and I'm surprised that he hasn't declared a national emergency and invoked the insurrection act and turned the military against his political enemies and people of color (he also fired anyone in the military leadership beholden to the constitution rather than Trump). I also think that he will suspend elections. So while I don't think people should stop fighting, for these and other reasons, I'm not sure that democracy will survive.
Up until now, I thought this was a Putin coup and it is easy to see steps from Putin, Hitler, and Orban. But now, with threats of suspending habeas corpus, the disappearing people, the arrests of political opponents, the breakdown of education, the law, and rise of oligarchs that he controls through feat, I am starting to see the similarities in the Guerra sucia, or dirty war in Argentina. In the dirty war, the dictatorship was a terrorist organization where between 30 and 50 thousand political enemies were disappeared to be tortured and killed. Just the fact that I am Jewish and that I am writing this would have put me at risk of being disappeared. (Except that I am doing it from the safety of Costa Rica where I have lived the last 9 years.)
I'm interested in what other people more knowledgable than me, think of the risk of following in Argentina's footsteps.
I understand the feeling of screaming into the wind about the rise of fascism. Between the obvious lies that got us into the Iraq war to SCOTUS overturning Citizens United, I've been on red alert.
I'm actually surprised that Trump has not ignored SCOTUS (by the end of the first week he'd gotten rid of anyone who could enforce judgements by the courts) and I'm surprised that he hasn't declared a national emergency and invoked the insurrection act and turned the military against his political enemies and people of color (he also fired anyone in the military leadership beholden to the constitution rather than Trump). I also think that he will suspend elections. So while I don't think people should stop fighting, for these and other reasons, I'm not sure that democracy will survive.
Up until now, I thought this was a Putin coup and it is easy to see steps from Putin, Hitler, and Orban. But now, with threats of suspending habeas corpus, the disappearing people, the arrests of political opponents, the breakdown of education, the law, and rise of oligarchs that he controls through feat, I am starting to see the similarities in the Guerra sucia, or dirty war in Argentina. In the dirty war, the dictatorship was a terrorist organization where between 30 and 50 thousand political enemies were disappeared to be tortured and killed. Just the fact that I am Jewish and that I am writing this would have put me at risk of being disappeared. (Except that I am doing it from the safety of Costa Rica where I have lived the last 9 years.)
I'm interested in what other people more knowledgable than me, think of the risk of following in Argentina's footsteps.