Imagine If This Moment Was Not About The Ascent of Authoritarians, But About A New Birth Of Global Freedom. J

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Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. Last night I came across this video from Iran on Bluesky:

#womenlifefreedom

This is our revolution. We are standing. "See us - we are here, in the heart of darkness, without internet, without connection.” Be our voice.

Repost from @ninaansary
Via @sarahrmni

#iranrevolution2026 #freeiran

— Richard Power (@wyrdsofpower.bsky.social) 2026-01-10T23:46:36.053Z

And I started thinking….what if the Iranian regime were to fall? If Zelenskyy were to win in Ukraine, and Putin lose? If the end of Maduro brought democracy to Venezuela not dictatorship? If Orban’s government finally was voted out of power in Hungary later this year? If the Cuban dictatorship were to fall after 67 years in power? If the new Syrian government, having overthrown a family dictatorship that lasted 53 years, was able to successfully bring democracy to the Arab world?

If were we were here in America successful in reclaiming our government from the oligarchs and Trump’s escalating authoritarianism? What if this moment became a moment, as Lincoln called it - “a new birth of freedom” - around the world and here at home rather than one of autocratic and oligarchical consolidation? What if we could look back at this year, 2026, ten years from now, not as one where freedom was lost but where it was renewed, restored and regained momentum? Where governments “of the people, by the people, for the people” did not perish from the earth……

Imagine if we were to win and Elon, and Putin, and Trump, and Orban, were to lose? Imagine……

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/imagine-if-this-moment-was-not-about