What @acertainjolene is saying 👇. When authoritarian regimes oppress the voices of citizens, they start to believe their own stories, and when other countries continue to uphold so-called 'soft' authoritarians as examples, they start to think they do not need to change. And ...
https://twitter.com/acertainjolene/status/1363482115292110851
... when such authoritarian models are spread across the world, it starts to embolden authoritarian regimes. There's no such thing as a 'soft' authoritarian. Believing that these regimes will come around while supporting their oppression is only allowing them to bide their time.
By the time authoritarian regimes become stronger together and democracies become more reliant on them, then democracies will be at their mercy. We can talk about localization and bringing production back to democracies, while ignoring the human rights transgressions ...
... in authoritarian regimes, but while the democratization process in the world is reversing, how long more do we have? The international organizations like @UN are starting to become a joke because democracies are giving so much way to authoritarian regimes to take over ...
... these institutions that they can no longer uphold the rights based values that these institutions are supposed to hold. Have we allowed politics and corruption to become so pervasive that the world's democratization is now at stake?
Perhaps what we do not want to acknowledge and talk about is how neoliberal capitalism has resulted in democracies falling so much over capital that they have failed to guard against the authoritarian spread, and that they have forgotten to protect the democratization process.
Our world is not better off when democracies keep quiet about the rights transgressions & abuses, when we do not take strong enough a stand in China, Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar and other authoritarian regimes. Then we are doomed to repeat mistakes of the past.
When authoritarian regimes believe democracies will keep quiet because money can buy their silence, they will keep using money to keep democracies quiet so that one day, when they can as a group become stronger, democracies will be at their mercy, & democracies will be kept shut.
Democracies need to take a stand, become principled and start using their current economic advantage to uphold global justice and rights before they lose this advantage. @EU_Commission, @POTUS, @CanadaFP, @dfat, @MFATNZ, @JapanGov, @TheBlueHouseENG.
If the military coup government is able to push forward with a successful coup, this will send a strong signal to China, Thailand & other countries in Southeast Asia that advanced countries and democracies are too weak, and they no longer need to take these countries seriously.
It is time democracies start to take strong, coordinated action starting with the coup regime in Myanmar, and to develop firm strategies that can curtail the authoritarian spread.
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