BTRTN: What Are We Going To Do About the Putin Within?
Born To Run The Numbers asks whether the citizens of a country are responsible for their government… and suggests that both the people of Russia and the people of the United States have a great deal to learn from the courageous, defiant patriots in Ukraine:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2022/03/btrtn-what-are-we-going-to-do-about.html
Excerpts: "The hard truth is that if the Russian people want to stop this war, there is only one way to do it: pour into the streets in the millions, in numbers that Putin cannot ignore, cannot imprison, and cannot kill. Yes, Russians! Start behaving like the brave Ukrainian citizens your barbarian leader is now killing. Take to the streets and defy the tyrants, the authoritarians, the murderers...
"And yet today’s sobering reality today is how many Americans are oblivious to the fact that our government 'of, by, and for the people' is under assault from within. We, the people, do not seem to grasp that there are forces in the United States that make this era much closer to Weimar Germany than we seem aware of, let alone capable of grappling with. Millions of Americans are aghast that Putin is rolling tanks toward Kyiv to overthrow a freely-elected government -- but somehow do not make the connection that Donald Trump tried overthrow our own government...
"But – like the months that Putin amassed his troops along the border of Ukraine – the threat of that authoritarianism is a growing cancer in our country. And – again, like Putin -- we are kidding ourselves if we don’t think this building surge of authoritarianism will not metastasize into ever more violent efforts to seize control of our government. Yes, there is a crazed, frustrated, and belligerent authoritarian in Moscow… but there is also one in Mar-a-Lago. A man who tried to destroy our democracy, and who may well get another chance to do it.
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