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Lucy

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Happily married Michigander. Somewhere between starry eyed 60s liberal, and late 60s cynic.
đŸ‡ș🇩 Most of you aren’t the mind readers you think you are.

  1. If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

    1. Purge govt of non loyalists
    2. Weaponize law against opponents
    3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
    4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
    5. Change election rules in his favor.

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  2. “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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  3. Not content to kill foreign tourism by threats of revoking visas—or worse, detention for posting mean comments on social media, they’re also scaring off home-grown tourists. So glad my fellow citizens voted in a man who’s good for business.

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