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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!sewer!alphared!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ltlee1@hotmail.com (ltlee1) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Autocracy in America Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:30:08 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <53a1bb8c5d6ebe33792c498bac647fdf@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2290098"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="mNwqq9k4PbjwCNcW/6mPKUh0i9J+bz8EaUjCd0X/OGk"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 2fefc04777943c472de9022864bceed983aeb27a X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$f9low4mKz3KH9g4uP8C3xeQVnzn/NNGX1WNPSvXQVgXXt274zWduS X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 3121 Lines: 59 Podcast produced by TheAtlantic.com: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/08/introducing-autocracy-in-america/679474/ "Renée DiResta: ’Cause I thought, Surely we’re not that far gone [laughs]. Um, and then, yeah, and then I realized maybe we are, actually. [music] Anne Applebaum: There’s a common perception that democracy ends with a battle—soldiers in the streets, a coup d’état, the fall of a government. Amanda Carpenter: Modern-day authoritarians do not come into power by brute force. Peter Pomerantsev: No, democracy’s lost one little step at a time. Carpenter: Modern-day authoritarians come to power by winning by democratic elections, but then once they get into power, tilting all the levers of power in their favor. Pomerantsev: We know this because we have studied how autocracies take hold. [music] Jefferson Cowie: My nightmare is that fascism comes to America, but it’s marching under the banner of freedom. Applebaum: We have reported from places where freedoms are curtailed and corruption flourishes. Mikhail Zygar: If you are accused of something, you’re going to be proven guilty. And there are no exceptions. Applebaum: We have seen with our own eyes what happens when democracy gives way to authoritarianism. Pomerantsev: When we look at America today—right now—we see a place where the slide to autocracy has already begun. Applebaum: It’s not some distant future. It’s the present. The evidence can be found in the tightening grip of conspiracy theories. Stephen Richer: Never in a million years would I have thought that somebody would have accused me of shredding ballots from the 2020 election, feeding them to chickens, and then burning the chickens to cover the evidence. Pomerantsev: It can be seen in the misuse of investigations and the fragility of the courts. DiResta: I just kept saying, like, When do we get to the part where the facts come out? Applebaum: There are signs of autocracy in the growth of dark money and the lack of transparency in politics. Sheldon Whitehouse: This is a beast that is stalking America’s political landscape."