Fascism is on the ballot

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-24-2020, 06:48 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Delegating authority to the states was exactly the wrong thing, and if Trump loses the election it will be because of this.

This was explored recently with posts that suggest the leaders in time of crisis need to be Caesars, need to be strong and authoritarian to solve the problem.  In Europe and elsewhere it is tempting to look back with fondness to the time of Fill-in-the-blank the Great.  In America, the pattern is to praise the strong leader who creates an effective government at the time of the crisis, but lets that government grow weaker and less focused after the crisis is solved.

The cry of 'freedom' is the cry of unraveling selfishness and weakness, of leaving problems unsolved.  It had it's time, but that time now gone.