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About 500 years ago, Machiavelli offered some lessons for would-be dictators.

But based on his studies of the fall of the Roman Empire and Renaissance Florence, he also offered advice for people who wished to avoid a Machiavellian dictatorship – and any Americans reading it should take notes.

A political science professor from Tufts University breaks down a few things to take into consideration from Machiavelli:
https://theconversation.com/machiavelli-226434

I decided to take a look at The Heritage Foundation's YouTube channel and I'm already enraged. This is the type of crap they're spreading at their talks.

I'm reading the transcript and they've mentioned God multiple times and said that marriage is between a man and a woman. They also keep mentioning Judeo Christian culture. I'm only 5 minutes into the transcript and it's already this bad.
https://youtu.be/Q1HF1h41YGc?si=v7g94DRDDWTZ0GMZ

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Strong words from Jason Hickel…
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Our ruling classes have spent the past 40 years shredding the social fabric — imposing austerity, misery, and extreme inequality — while crushing any Left alternative that promised to improve people's lives. They have actively paved the way for the rise of the far Right.

When it comes down to it, the “liberal center” would rather risk handing power to fascists than accept even the remotest possibility of Socialist reform. They claim to value universal rights and civil liberties, but at base all that matters to them is capital accumulation.
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Professor Jason Hickel is the author of “Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World”

BOOK -- https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more

Black-and-white photo of Professor Jason Hickel looking into the camera.

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.