Some call it "Autocracy, Inc." funded by your not-so-favorite billionaires.
The parallels to the early 1930s in Germany are frightening. At that time a few wealthy industrialists funded the Nazis, who would never have come to power without the funding. The result was WWII-- 75 to 80 million dead and multiple countries in ruins.
When we only focus on the lunacy happening domestically, we are missing one key and crucial set of issues. There is a very real prospect of WWIII by not supporting the ejection of Russia from Ukraine.
We may get caught up on personality politics in the U.S. but, rest assured, none of the former Warsaw Pact or former Soviet Socialist Republics in the Baltics are interested in being returned to Russia. They will fight an invasion, which will set off WWIII. That would result in untold destruction in the Baltics, Poland, and other neighboring countries.
Professor Reich: i can't help but wonder what the radical right would think if they won and ended up being having to live under the regime they've openly and enthusiastically espoused? it's mind-boggling: such a regime goes against everything they claim to believe in.
Trump is not hiding it and, if the past is any guide, we would be well advised to listen to what he says. If elected, it will likely be worse than the oral diarrhea coming from his mouth.
I can barely believe this is happening in this country. It seems the very rich would much rather have a dictator than a democratically elected government. Make no mistake about their complicity in this scheme to take power. I’m beginning to have nightmares about trump. This worldwide phenomenon is being supported by the very rich. Funding was key to Hitler and is key to trumps rise. No political movement can survive without backing. It’s a sorry mess we have!
“Republicans in Congress, CPAC, and Tucker Carlson have made it abundantly clear that this election pits democracy and freedom against what is fast becoming a global anti-democracy movement, co-chaired by Trump and Putin.”
Every great empire is never beaten in War, it dies a slow death from apathy, internal strife and exhaustion. The Roman Empire fell due to many factors; however, a major factor was the infiltration and influence of religious zealots, who we now call Christian’s.
America’s death will be at the hands of the same demonic forces, including an illiterate and apathetic electorate, and a religious fundamentalist movement, that has infiltrated every government institution.
The saddest thing is that all of these far-right leaders are aligning themselves with Trump because it gives THEM legitimacy on the world stage. America gets nothing from it, other than the ego-stroke Trump so desperately needs every ten minutes. Why is it so hard for our people to see that they to are being used to fuel his narcissistic need for power? Hard to believe that a so-called Christian nation is mired so deeply in their view of us vs. them. It really misses the point.
I think it's wrong to consider Putin and Trump co-chairs. Trump is only a lieutenant to Putin representing the US faction of billionaires in that movement.
I do so wish that we did not have to waste time talking about a fool. BP (Biden's predecessor, bowing to Biden's clever avoidance of the orange one's name - courteous disrespect) is not capable of being the leader of the antidemocracy movement. This is Putin's schtick, along with assistance from China, Hungary, and others. Yet behind it all are the corporate entities that really run things, helping make Putin and his buddies the richest oligarchs in the world. (And yes, I include Bezos, Musk, Theil, Dimon and even Bill Gates with a host of others wealthy elites in that mix who are really anti-democracy.) We are heading to a cliff, the road marked by climate change, and the more we drive (not a metaphor, we are driving) down that road the closer we get to a cliff. The cliff does not destroy democracy, it destroys all. This year is the warmest on record. Every month setting a record for that month. Things are blooming a month early. Nature is confused and chaotic. Unless we can push back the forces opposed to necessary change, which is to only agenda the MAGA crowd have, we collapse. It is that stark.
He looks to repeat Putin - extort the oligarchs, shut down the opposition, destruct the universities. However, he has zero patience and zero intelligence so he will throw the world into its final spin cycle - the one where the washing machine sounds like it’s going to explode. Ever the coward, he’ll be the first into the bunker.
The only statement I would dispute in Reich’s otherwise flawless account is the last sentence, wherein Reich portrays Trump and Putin as co-equals. In my view, the global anti-democratic movement is led by Putin and Jinping; Trump, at best, is a means for helping to fulfill their vision.
The leaders in the States perhaps most convincingly positioned to nail my thesis regarding Trump to the post with confirming evidence are the generals who served in the Trump Administration—John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, and Mark Milley. Though I would hope, despite protocol, to help defeat authoritarianism here at home, they would address the American people and reveal the full truth they withheld about Trump throughout their tenure serving in his administration, in the interim, we have Journalist Jim Sciutto’s forthcoming book The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War, wherein Sciutto reports conversations with John Kelly and John Bolton. “He’s not a tough guy by any means, but in fact quite the opposite,” Kelly said. “But that’s how he envisions himself.”
We are facing a global movement to end democracy. It doesn’t get more serious than that. We still have the ability to vote these people out here. We had certainly better do that. These people are ruthless and will stop at nothing. We have to be more determined. History will not forgive us if we fail. Vote!!
“Carlson also provided a Potemkin-village view of Moscow’s subway and a department store — propaganda Russia couldn’t have paid for.”
Ah, but they DID pay for it.
There is one thing linking ALL the autocrats and their spokespeople that Prof. Reich cites: MONEY. Whether all of them believe all their rhetoric or not, and to the same degree, is irrelevant because there’s likely not one of them who isn’t having the equivalent of millions, if not billions, of dollars funneled to their bank accounts by the ultra-rich and corporate interests they serve. No wonder they and the Republicans, whose party exists for no other reason, have such an affinity for one another.
A ruthless, bloodthirsty, gang of tyrant dictators in expensive suits, completely devoid of genuine patriotism or concern for any living being, colluding to ravage, pillage, and plunder their own people and nations, as well as other nations, to serve their insatiable, highly-insane egos.
Some call it "Autocracy, Inc." funded by your not-so-favorite billionaires.
The parallels to the early 1930s in Germany are frightening. At that time a few wealthy industrialists funded the Nazis, who would never have come to power without the funding. The result was WWII-- 75 to 80 million dead and multiple countries in ruins.
When we only focus on the lunacy happening domestically, we are missing one key and crucial set of issues. There is a very real prospect of WWIII by not supporting the ejection of Russia from Ukraine.
We may get caught up on personality politics in the U.S. but, rest assured, none of the former Warsaw Pact or former Soviet Socialist Republics in the Baltics are interested in being returned to Russia. They will fight an invasion, which will set off WWIII. That would result in untold destruction in the Baltics, Poland, and other neighboring countries.
Time to wake up!
Professor Reich: i can't help but wonder what the radical right would think if they won and ended up being having to live under the regime they've openly and enthusiastically espoused? it's mind-boggling: such a regime goes against everything they claim to believe in.
Trump is not hiding it and, if the past is any guide, we would be well advised to listen to what he says. If elected, it will likely be worse than the oral diarrhea coming from his mouth.
I can barely believe this is happening in this country. It seems the very rich would much rather have a dictator than a democratically elected government. Make no mistake about their complicity in this scheme to take power. I’m beginning to have nightmares about trump. This worldwide phenomenon is being supported by the very rich. Funding was key to Hitler and is key to trumps rise. No political movement can survive without backing. It’s a sorry mess we have!
“Republicans in Congress, CPAC, and Tucker Carlson have made it abundantly clear that this election pits democracy and freedom against what is fast becoming a global anti-democracy movement, co-chaired by Trump and Putin.”
Every great empire is never beaten in War, it dies a slow death from apathy, internal strife and exhaustion. The Roman Empire fell due to many factors; however, a major factor was the infiltration and influence of religious zealots, who we now call Christian’s.
America’s death will be at the hands of the same demonic forces, including an illiterate and apathetic electorate, and a religious fundamentalist movement, that has infiltrated every government institution.
The true enemy is from within..:)
Past generations have stood strong against the oppression it’s our turn
Do we have the courage?
40% of Americans are useful idiots. We need to render them useless in November.
The saddest thing is that all of these far-right leaders are aligning themselves with Trump because it gives THEM legitimacy on the world stage. America gets nothing from it, other than the ego-stroke Trump so desperately needs every ten minutes. Why is it so hard for our people to see that they to are being used to fuel his narcissistic need for power? Hard to believe that a so-called Christian nation is mired so deeply in their view of us vs. them. It really misses the point.
I think it's wrong to consider Putin and Trump co-chairs. Trump is only a lieutenant to Putin representing the US faction of billionaires in that movement.
I do so wish that we did not have to waste time talking about a fool. BP (Biden's predecessor, bowing to Biden's clever avoidance of the orange one's name - courteous disrespect) is not capable of being the leader of the antidemocracy movement. This is Putin's schtick, along with assistance from China, Hungary, and others. Yet behind it all are the corporate entities that really run things, helping make Putin and his buddies the richest oligarchs in the world. (And yes, I include Bezos, Musk, Theil, Dimon and even Bill Gates with a host of others wealthy elites in that mix who are really anti-democracy.) We are heading to a cliff, the road marked by climate change, and the more we drive (not a metaphor, we are driving) down that road the closer we get to a cliff. The cliff does not destroy democracy, it destroys all. This year is the warmest on record. Every month setting a record for that month. Things are blooming a month early. Nature is confused and chaotic. Unless we can push back the forces opposed to necessary change, which is to only agenda the MAGA crowd have, we collapse. It is that stark.
It’s always follow the carrot with this ass.
He looks to repeat Putin - extort the oligarchs, shut down the opposition, destruct the universities. However, he has zero patience and zero intelligence so he will throw the world into its final spin cycle - the one where the washing machine sounds like it’s going to explode. Ever the coward, he’ll be the first into the bunker.
The only statement I would dispute in Reich’s otherwise flawless account is the last sentence, wherein Reich portrays Trump and Putin as co-equals. In my view, the global anti-democratic movement is led by Putin and Jinping; Trump, at best, is a means for helping to fulfill their vision.
The leaders in the States perhaps most convincingly positioned to nail my thesis regarding Trump to the post with confirming evidence are the generals who served in the Trump Administration—John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, and Mark Milley. Though I would hope, despite protocol, to help defeat authoritarianism here at home, they would address the American people and reveal the full truth they withheld about Trump throughout their tenure serving in his administration, in the interim, we have Journalist Jim Sciutto’s forthcoming book The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War, wherein Sciutto reports conversations with John Kelly and John Bolton. “He’s not a tough guy by any means, but in fact quite the opposite,” Kelly said. “But that’s how he envisions himself.”
I would characterize it as an international fascist syndicate headed by Putin, with Trump, Orban & others you mentioned mob bosses. Very foreboding!
We are facing a global movement to end democracy. It doesn’t get more serious than that. We still have the ability to vote these people out here. We had certainly better do that. These people are ruthless and will stop at nothing. We have to be more determined. History will not forgive us if we fail. Vote!!
“Carlson also provided a Potemkin-village view of Moscow’s subway and a department store — propaganda Russia couldn’t have paid for.”
Ah, but they DID pay for it.
There is one thing linking ALL the autocrats and their spokespeople that Prof. Reich cites: MONEY. Whether all of them believe all their rhetoric or not, and to the same degree, is irrelevant because there’s likely not one of them who isn’t having the equivalent of millions, if not billions, of dollars funneled to their bank accounts by the ultra-rich and corporate interests they serve. No wonder they and the Republicans, whose party exists for no other reason, have such an affinity for one another.
A ruthless, bloodthirsty, gang of tyrant dictators in expensive suits, completely devoid of genuine patriotism or concern for any living being, colluding to ravage, pillage, and plunder their own people and nations, as well as other nations, to serve their insatiable, highly-insane egos.