Mary Trump: "Lesson One in Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny is “Do not obey in advance.” He writes:
'Most of the power in authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.'
Jeff Bezos has succumbed to the kind of anticipatory obedience Snyder was describing. "
https://www.marytrump.org/p/democracy-dies-in-darkness-indeed ##WaPo #media #Trump
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