Our liberal democracy we revere,
with rules from the majority.
All the citizens are sovereign,
with rights and authority.
In contrast to an autocracy,
elites in power, hiding their flaws
and oppressing the minorities,
with unfair and unequal laws.
The nationalists follow him around,
in blind obedience,
believing they’re secure,
in the state’s residence.
They can’t seem to understand,
they’re being misled by the statesman.
But if only elite lives matter,
what will become of the children?
PROMPT BELOW BY: ElRoyPoet
In a democracy, majority rules. However that doesn’t give the majority the right to disenfranchise or oppress the minority. Because all citizens of the republic are sovereign and equal in the eyes of the law.
Contrast that with an autocracy, where the politicians and elites rule and assert their right to exploit or subjugate the residents who do not agree with them. These autocrats posture that if the citizens, side with them, they will be safe from government intervention. In this instance only the state is sovereign and as result any dissidents who do not align with their beliefs, will be subject to disenfranchisement and oppression. This propaganda is used as a form of mind control in order to force the nationalists to goose step with the state, and to deceive them into believing they are also card carrying members of the ruling party.
Why authoritarian regimes are always at war
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe from what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.” By: Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a “woke” 21 year old German student and Antifa political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
“Being good is hard if you live under an authoritarian regime… Dictatorships elevate the nation and the leader as ultimate ends, while mere individuals have no inherent worth outside of their service to the state… Damir Marusic, an Atlantic Council senior fellow, recently wrote, ‘Putin is a wholly authentic Russian phenomenon, and the imperialist policy he’s pursuing in Ukraine is too.’ This is right, but only up to a point. We simply don’t know what individual Russians would choose, want—or become—if they had been socialized in a free, open democracy, rather than a dictatorship where fear is the air one breathes. Like everyone else, they are products of their environment. Authoritarianism corrupts society. Because punishment and reward are made into arbitrary instruments of the state, citizens have little incentive to pool resources, cooperate, or trust others. Survival is paramount, and survival requires putting one’s own interests above everything else, including traditional morality. In such a context, as the historian Timothy Snyder puts it, ‘life is nasty, brutish, and short; the pleasure of life is that it can be made nastier, more brutish, and shorter for others.’ This is the zero-sum mindset that transforms cruelty into virtue.
In short, authoritarianism twists the soul and distorts natural moral intuitions. In so doing, it renders its citizens—or, more precisely, its subjects—less morally culpable. To be fully morally culpable is to be free to choose between right and wrong. But that choice becomes much more difficult under conditions of dictatorship. Not everyone can be courageous and sacrifice life and livelihood to do the right thing.” Excerpt from Why the Russian People Go Along With Putin’s War
Commentary: Everybody learns the hard way! The middle class is okay with the status quo—right now, because they have the voting power. They also have the luxury of blaming the lower class for all the social ills that are afflicting America—claiming that the minorities have brought it upon themselves. The fact of the matter is that the lower class has no real power, so even though they might complain or protest against being profiled as the dregs of society, it doesn’t matter because they don’t have any political power. Besides the politicians don’t really care about them, because they don’t have any economic power, either. The only ones that have any real power to make a difference—right now, are the middle class. However if they allow the government to become an ultra-nationalist regime, by voting in authoritarian representatives, they will get relegated to second class citizens, because they’re not elites. Even if they complain and protest, by that time, it will be too late, because they will have no power left, just like the lower class has no power today. Case in point any authoritarian country on earth is proof that the state and the elites are first class and the citizens are second class. I repeat, that’s the way of the crony capitalist world!
Western governments believe they can ban populism. They’re dangerously wrong
“Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that same liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the ‘general welfare of the people’. Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by [authoritarian] tyrants—to make us bondsmen.” By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” By: Benito Mussolini
“The exercise of freedom will always create rebels, because that’s the origin of revolutions. We can’t have a sedentary society, just like we can’t have a perfect union. If you don’t want conflict in your family, church and state, you want fascism, and if that’s what you want, you don’t want democracy.” By: A. Freeman
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