Category Archives: authoritarianism

On the Road to Authoritarianism: The Challenges

Posted on January 15, 2025 by greg

Throughout most of U.S. history, when prosperity and opportunity have been more broadly shared, especially for women and people of colour, it’s been hand-in-hand with the expansion of democracy and individual freedoms, not their curtailment. Structural and systemic economic unfairness … Continue reading →

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Trump As the Conduit for the Alt Right: The Consequences

Posted on January 1, 2025 by greg

Digital media has played a significant role in the rise of right-wing populism, facilitating the circulation of extremist propaganda. Around the world populist movements are wreaking economic destruction and social turmoil in the name of moral principles. The biggest takeaway … Continue reading →

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How Disinformation Supports Post-truth and Authoritarianism

Posted on December 15, 2024 by greg

Postmodernism is defined as the reaction to assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. Postmodernism says that there is no real truth. It says that knowledge is always made or invented and not discovered. Postmodernism is based … Continue reading →

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The Plutocracy and Big Money: the Cost of Money in Politics

Posted on December 1, 2024 by greg

Billionaires do not hesitate to present their ideology as interpretation of truth. Hedge fund billionaire Bob Mercer and his family spent millions in GAI (Government Accountability Institute), Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign to get Trump elected. Hillary … Continue reading →

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Shapeshifting Supports Republicans Getting Back into Power

Posted on October 31, 2024 by greg

Shape-shifting means either you don’t want to be understood as you are in your core, or that there’s not a real shape to who you are; you just morph into whatever advances your interests depending on the circumstances. Continue reading →

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Politics of Fear: Identifying the Need for Change

Posted on October 23, 2024 by greg

Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support. Continue reading →

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Defining Freedom in 21st Century in Light of Determinism

Posted on October 15, 2024 by greg

Since the time of the French Revolution, freedom has been regarded as the greatest value of culture. Today in modern society, we are trying to restore the value of individual freedom, which we formally perceive as one of the rights … Continue reading →

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Countering An Existential Threat: Trump & Project 2025

Posted on October 1, 2024 by greg

Existential risks are defined as “risks that threaten the destruction of humanity’s long-term potential.” Over the long term, climate change is an existential threat, and it is younger generations and those still to come who will more fully bear the … Continue reading →

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 How the Cult of Victimhood Dominates Politics

Posted on September 15, 2024 by greg

Victimhood is now a pivotal means by which individuals and groups see themselves and constitute themselves as political actors. Continue reading →

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How Propaganda Influences Opinions and Behaviours

Posted on September 1, 2024 by greg

In The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, Hayek argued that government planning, by crushing individualism, would lead inexorably to totalitarian control. It came to the attention of some very wealthy people, who saw in the philosophy an opportunity to … Continue reading →

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