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I thought they were going to have to shutdown the government due to the normal inability to do anything productive because they don't want to work. My parter believes they were too stupid to orchestrate a plan to do that.
I've been afraid for years about what's going on. It's why I "ate" books like "On Tyranny", Masha's book on autocr…
I thought they were going to have to shutdown the government due to the normal inability to do anything productive because they don't want to work. My parter believes they were too stupid to orchestrate a plan to do that.
I've been afraid for years about what's going on. It's why I "ate" books like "On Tyranny", Masha's book on autocracy (just keep saying "yes" to the autocrat), Applebaum's book, "The Twilight of Democracy." I have another being delivered today but I forgot the name of it but it's by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. I like knowing where we're headed (Orban/Hungary) and what it'll look like if we get there. I did read the biography of Angela Merkel for fun and it was fabulous inbetween the scary books.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's work is excellent. I've found the historical parallels she draws to demonstrate trends are very valuable for how we think about what we are observing in real time.
Ruth's book is Strongmen, and it's excellent.