Tyranny is always conceived by a powerful few and midwived and delivered by the powerless masses who decide to be the enforcers of the establishment. Time and time again, autocrats were able to commit atrocities and stifle the freedoms of millions of people only because they were aided and abetted by the very people who were being oppressed. This is true of Germany during the age of Hitler, in my homeland Ethiopia when the Derg rose to power and countless other nations that were touched and shattered by the scourge of authoritarianism.
Because humans have the memory of cicada, we are traveling down the same roads of fascism and self-nullification that led to the destruction of every empire. Instead of debating armed with facts, ad hominem and shouting people down have become as commonplace as tea and crumpets in London. Reporting others to the authorities and muzzling people based on their identity or beliefs is so pervasive that the cancel culture has turned society into a Petri dish of pretentious and preening dolts. As much as the corporate-government-media complex keep stripping our freedoms away, the actions of too many who resuscitated McCarthyism and tattletale on anyone who does not abide their narrow doctrines are just as malicious....continued...
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