Thread by @ThyConsigliori

6 May 2021 #MAGAanalysis

#FromDictatorshipToDemocracy – Chapter 4: Dictatorships have Weaknesses – The 17 Weaknesses

If there's a single fact we need Sharp to give us, it is the title of this chapter. Dictatorships have weaknesses. A moment from sci-fi will illustrate.

2) Be it an alien invasion or some creature from beyond like Godzilla, the question is always, does it bleed? If the poor creature can, then its doom is already in the can. Monsters bleed and that means humans can kill them.

3) This is 100% true of all dictatorships. They bleed and they can be taken down. The simple fact that dictatorships DO, in fact, HAVE weaknesses is one of Sharp's greatest points. Tyrants do NOT enjoy the cosmic powers they wish us to believe they do.

4) Dictatorships create a mystique, a myth of absolute power and zero invulnerability. Sharp states the problem directly, and then instantly moves into his correction of this 100% falsehood. We must take great encouragement therefrom.

5) Here's my reduced-terms list of his 17 weaknesses:

1) Cooperation Needed
2) Regime's Past Policies
3) Less Able to Adjust
4) Personnel and Resources NOT Available
5) Subordinates NOT Reporting Accurately

6) List continues:

6) Ideology Erosion
7) Ideology Distraction From Reality
8) Deteriorating Efficiency
9) Internal Conflicts
10) Intellectuals Grow Restless
11) General Public Grow Skeptical
12) Segment Differences Grow Acute
13) Power Hierarchy Instability

7) List concludes:

14) Police or Military Pull Away
15) Time Pressure Mounts
16) Mistakes of Judgment, Policy, Action
17) Erosion of Power & Control

8) We'll look at just a few, randomly.

The first is anything but the most important, maybe it's the least. #10 tells us that the intellectuals supporting the dictator may grow restless. Now how might that happen? Can you picture a university's faculty party?

9) Now imagine that a 100% supportive professor just lost funding for a pet project, for whatever reason. Dictator's ALWAYS purchase their loyalty with advantages. The very moment you remove the advantage, out the window the loyalty goes.

10) Sure, long as the project funding was in place the professor was like to turn a blind eye to infringement of rights. But, what if after the funding disappeared, his parents were actually arrested by the dictator's enforcers? A very different emotion commences.

11) Let's talk about the police. You tell me, how many true patriots are there amongst our police forces in America? And I'll tell you, every single cop out there has a place where love of America, and love of America's freedoms roots deep. That's a huge problem for a dictator.

12) Numbers 2 & 3 are personal favorites of mine. I can already see the Biden dictatorship struggling with past policies, and their inability to adjust. Consider the border. They can't quite just jettison Trump's enhanced security there. They want to, but it's hard.

13) Who remembers the extraordinary TV series, Chernobyl? It demonstrated the far-reaching impact of weakness number 5, the inability of subordinates to report accurately.

14) Look at number 11, a public that grows more and more skeptical. Joe Biden had many 10s of people show up at his drive-in rallies. Trump had countless 10s of thousands. Biden rambles incoherently. Trump nails every presentation. Skepticism out there? You think, maybe?

15) Let's spend a little time on number 1, the cooperation that is needed. Yes, no doubt, our entire federal apparatus has been corrupted over the past 100 years and more. They will certainly cooperate with their evil leader. We can know they will.

16) But what about the entire rest of the nation? If there's a single fact that's most important here, it is this. We won a massive, landslide reelection, and we had it completely stolen from us. Think of the millions upon millions of us who voted for Trump.

17) The Biden usurpation requires, it cannot live without our surrendered cooperation. What if we were to start actually protesting? What if we withdraw our cooperation from this fake presidency? I'll share a single point where I've withdrawn mine.

18) I've come to believe that watching the news on TV is a form of cooperation. The very moment that FOX news announced Arizona for Biden, my family and I stopped watching news. It wasn't our plan. It wasn't even a solid decision. It just happened.

19) It didn't take me long to figure out what I'd decided. I chose, purposefully and consciously, to watch NO show that would refer to Joe Biden as President-Elect. Obviously, I can't watch anything that calls him President, either. Thus, no news.

20) Let's end there for tonight. My ask of you is this. Think through what you do cooperate with, and how you might weaken or completely withdraw your cooperation. When I return on Friday, we'll pick up right there.

Thread ends at #20.

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