Some call it "the unthinkable", but it is very much thinkable. Throughout the world and since the dawn of history, autocracy has been the default system of government. Recent events are just reversion to the mean.
Freedom is not our birthright. It has to be earned and protected.
Freedom is not our birthright. It has to be earned and protected.
It may seem like an incredibly obvious thing to say, but: a democratic nation that votes authoritarians into power and that cannot muster mass protests to defend the rule of law or human rights when threatened, cannot possibly stay democratic for very long.
(Spoiler: there will be no mass protests, not now, nor at further stages)
