Highlighted by Richard Reusser
From Why Beating Authoritarianism Takes the One Thing Americans Might Not Have Anymore by umair haque
(When a nation is so supine, so powerless, so weak, that it will tolerate, one by one, a list of growing offense to its health, sanity, prosperity —first school shootings, then no healthcare, and then infants on trial — then of course soon enough authoritarianism has arisen. Because when a society cannot take collective action, a tyrant will rule, where a democracy should be. Because democracy is just a name for collective action — and such intolerable things being tolerated tell us that a democracy isn’t working. Either that, or people have gone bananas.