Thinking politically.

Small minded people will always prey on the weak minded to divide unity in the open democratic society. The world seems to have voted for closed societies, not based on democracy. According to Wikipedia only 6.4% of the population are under a full democracy. 37% of the people in the world are ruled by authoritarian regimes. Finland, Norway and Sweden lead the world in democracy. Afghanistan leads the world in lack of democracy, followed by Myanmar and North Korea.

It's no wonder that someone has the fantasy of a startup tech CEO dictatorship. Not surprisingly the author of the blog touting this brand of monarchy is himself a startup CEO. In the USA he slots right in with the right wing. People like Elon Musk, but most people the shine has worn off his ascent based on reading his tweets. Jeff Bezos has stepped down in favor of riding around in a yacht. Zuckerberg sunk his capital into something even his own employees are not interested in. Steve Jobs is dead, and he gave a Buddhist flavored speech in recognition of his limited life. The CEO of Twitter got a 60 million dollar plus golden parachute when Musk fired him.

The USA's democracy rating is slipping. Apathy, selfishness, bewilderment and confusion have eroded my assumptions about how strong America's democracy is. Jimmy Carter called in malaise when we lost our shit during gas prices rising. Gas prices rising is a lose our shit trigger. Nobody wants to think about how to use less gas. I find it utterly shocking. I'm gobsmacked. Democracy is fragile.

I want to read Julius Caesar. He wasn't a dictator yet in 55 BCE (B.E. 2565), but they were afraid he wanted to be, and could dupe the people into a dictatorship. So he was killed. To save democracy.

We don't have to kill the populist leaders on the right to save democracy this time, we could just strip them of their power, make it impossible to run on a ballot, strip them of their financial means, deplatform their anti-democratic rhetoric, their violent rhetoric. Career murder is enough. It will just take some guts, elbow grease, and fortitude. Who's going to be the hero of our reassertion of democracy?

When faced with an enemy who stop at nothing, you must stop at nothing to snuff them out. These traitors will go down in history as losers.

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