ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder

[ladyloveswolves7]

This is the most frightening book I have read in as long as I can remember. It was written a month before President Trump's inauguration and published a month after. As I was reading I went on YouTube and watched a video of the author introducing his book in a book store and what he said twisted my guts in a knot because I had watched the campaign and it had upset me and made me deeply political for the first time in my life. I could not believe what was happening and spent a lot of time ranting and upset watching the, to me, systematic dismantling of democracy and a true copy cat 1933 Germany coming into being. The entire world seemed to have gone crazy and the sane members seemed helpless to stop it. Rule of law was disappearing. This was my personal point of view. Early in 2019, I turned off my television, I could no longer watch what was happening. I turned to the past and my books. But information seeped in and kept my personal pot boiling. This book just capped it all. It is three years of more and more, worse and worse and everything he warned about in this book, all the sign posts of fascism and dictatorships and people turning off their minds and becoming sheep...has all come true in every aspect. Hope is fading. We who are still fighting for truth and democracy leap at every renewed chance of hope like 'impeachment' as if it will save us and yet Trump's minions appear on television lying through their teeth and are given a platform by mainstream media (out of fairness???) to spew their garbage and I know that the base of the mindless sheep that follow Trump just like the Germans followed Hitler in 1938 are out there sucking it up as mother's milk. We on the left are so busy following the rules and not wanting to descend into the depths of depravity and hatred that the right has gone so far from rule of law and human decency that it is like a runaway train. If women would fight for women, if the gays would take to the streets again, if Greta's climate change movement only gets larger. This is not 1933 Germany with its terrible problems and people already crushed under a burden imposed by outsiders...this is a wealthy country, with educated citizens who can see climate change, can see when a politician is trying to take away the rights of women and denigrate them, can see the people who are responsible for telling us the truth of what is happening around us...being vilified. Just like with climate change...we are at a tipping point...we must do something. Everyone who sees the truth must do something before it is too late. Bush started this ball rolling by taking away the rights of citizens under the guise of homeland security and Trump is doubling down all over the place and the sheep are cheering the coming police state. This book is a tiny bombshell of truth that should be carried in the pocket of every single citizen just as Mao's little red book was carried by his.