Autocracy

It’s about fear of slipping into autocracy, not about the desire for autocracy.

Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy?

Critics say Netanyahu, a defendant standing trial for corruption charges, holds a personal grudge against the justice system and is pushing the country toward autocracy.

During an appearance on Citizen TV’s Monday Report show, Murkomen said Rwanda operates as an autocracy, emphasizing that whatever the President says is considered the law.

Fascism also means dictatorship, tyranny, autocracy, intolerance, the unwillingness to entertain the other view, the tendency to assume that one’s opinion is supreme and superior and that other human beings do not matter.

Ferguson just wrote a column on Bloomberg titled “All is Not Quiet on the Eastern Front” – basically to peddle the risk of WWIII, on behalf of his masters, blaming of course “China as the arsenal of autocracy”.

In 2021, the V-Dem institute classified Bangladesh as an “electoral autocracy”, while in the same year, Freedom House listed Bangladesh as “partly free”.

In that desperate scenario, facing defeat and the ultimate collapse of his autocracy, Putin reaching for the nuclear launch button could suddenly become a very real prospect.

Moreover, casting jihadists as deviants rather than products of problematic tenants of jurisprudence that justify violence stymies criticism of the justification of autocracy as a necessary means to combat violence and promote moderate Islam.

Stating that “democracy turns into autocracy when powers are concentrated within one family”, state BJP president K Annamalai said the DMK government was rattled by the slightest criticism.

The war broke out in Khartoum after disputes over plans for the RSF to be integrated into the army and over the future chain of command under an internationally backed deal to shift Sudan towards democracy after decades of conflict-ridden autocracy.

They say it will open the door to serious infringements on personal liberties and the rights of women, the LGBTQ+ community and minorities that will set Israel on a path toward autocracy.

When he allowed himself to be coopted by Mahathir to serve in the latter's Umno regime, he sided with Malays autocracy, Mahathir's dictatorship, allowed Mahathir's rabid racism to flourish, allowed corruption in Malaysia to become its main business.

After unfurling the national flag on the occasion of Republic Day, in her caustic remarks against the previous BRS Government said the people’s mandate declared that arrogance and autocracy have no place in Telangana.

AND NOTHING will ever change for the better for the people on the receiving end of the Hip-Autocracy that has had Mendocino County in a lavender chokehold ever since Jim Jones, a liberal, a Democrat, and a committed doper.

And, several international bodies have downgraded India’s democracy to being “partially free” or “flawed” or as an “electoral autocracy”.

In an autocracy, there is the overwhelming vileness that was dumped on a Guyanese speaking truths that shows up the PPP Government for how intolerant it is.

Is 2024 the year when democracy hits a tipping point and slides toward autocracy?

That combination of personal bravery and institutional strength will be necessary to fight the threat of American autocracy.

The best recent depiction of how American autocracy would play out at home remains “The Plot Against America,” David Simon’s 2020 adaptation of the Philip Roth novel.