Tag: authoritarianism
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Power Is, Was, And Will Always Be the Rule
Every time a major power acts decisively, someone warns that “a dangerous precedent has been set.” That assumes history was ever governed by precedent rather than permission. It wasn’t. States have always done what they could get away with. What changes is only who notices.What feels destabilizing today is the recognition of a truth we…
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Democracy Isn’t Dying—It Was Designed to Decay
In 2016, something broke in me—not emotionally, but philosophically. It wasn’t just the candidates. It was what they represented. On one side, a career politician who embodied every manipulative, transactional instinct of the political class. On the other, a billionaire game show host playing populist messiah. Presented with this absurd binary, I assumed this had…
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Life after door kicking. 