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Americans' Cartoon Vision of Authoritarianism Causes Us to Miss It
 Authoritarianism has been interwoven into the fabric of our republic since its inception and the Republican Party is today fighting what will hopefully be a losing battle to hang onto and expand it… Americans are afraid of the wrong thing. When you ask most Americans what authoritarianism looks like, they'll describe jackbooted thugs goosestepping up to their house to drag them away to a concentration camp. That, however, is not authoritarianism: that's Nazi style tyranny, aka totalitarianism, where the government controls every aspect of life including those that are social, religious, and economic, along with a police state that uses terror to rule with absolute power. While the transition from authoritarianism to totalitarianism can happen rapidly (just ask any Chilean alive in late 1973 and early 1974), typically it takes time, sometimes years and sometimes even decades, for its corrosive power to morph into totalitarianism. Which is why most Americans don't recognize the "softer" authoritarianism that is here now, on our doorstep, corrupting our election, legislative, and judicial systems. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Power to the South: The Three-Fifths Compromise
Sunday book excerpt: The Hidden History of the War on Voting As the drama of writing the Constitution for a new nation was going on during the summer of 1787 in Independence Hall in Philadelphia (then the home of the Pennsylvania Legislature), a different kind of drama was playing out in the streets of that city. It was, according to the newspapers of the day and the letters sent home from delegates to the convention, a brutally hot, muggy, mosquito-infested summer in Philadelphia. This was during a time when the mechanisms of weather were largely unknown, and superstition was thickly merged with Christianity. Thus, on May 5, when a boy of about five years died of an apparent heatstroke, an elderly woman in town was accused of being the witch who'd cast a spell upon him. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report - Why Is the Mainstream Media Ignoring the GOP Plan to Blow Up the Global Economy and Destroy Social Security?
The Best of the Rest of the News. — Whoa...Was Trump selling America's secrets on Iran & China? — On top of being a traitor, Trump is also a criminal, although this most recently identified crime was also in furtherance of his attempts to destroy democracy in the United States of America. — While Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, Republicans are openly bragging that they intend to stab our allies in the back. — Meanwhile, it appears that Putin is upping his genocide threat against Ukraine, while his own military may be sabotaging his desire to use tactical nuclear weapons against that country. — The predictable consequence of too many guns. — If you want to destroy a democracy, the first step is to convince its citizens that they can't trust their own election systems. — What's up with the polls? — Why is the mainstream media ignoring the GOP plan to blow up the global economy and destroy Social Security? — Good News: Record numbers of Americans are voting early. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Americans' Cartoon Vision of Authoritarianism Causes Us to Miss It
Tweet: " Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo." by Thomas Massie.
Why Is slavery on the ballot in 4 States?
Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
In Nevada have election deniers already prepared to sabotage the midterms?
Hour Two: Did NC senate candidate Ted Budd help donors attempting to bypass predatory lending laws?- Julia Rock, Reporter - Lever News 
America Medical assoc. president wants politicians to get out out exam room
Mayo clinic warns people about Medicare advantage
Hour Three: Merrick Garland's Justice Dept busts a Chinese spy ring...
Article: " Brian Kemp" (Georgia Secretary of State) by Wikipedia.
There were 10 separate mass shootings last week - where is sensible gun reform?
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
"What happens when you put ideologues in charge of a university?" I'll ask Judd Legum, Journalist/Founder - Popular.info
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Slavery Is Legal And Americans Are Voting on It?
Warning Don't Do This Or You'll Lose Your Medicare!
Attacks Against American Democracy!
Why Democrats Only Party of Family Values?
Why Are American Generals Selling Out to the Saudis?
Schools Ask For Kids' DNA In Case Their Bodies Are Unidentifiable After Mass Shooting
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