![]() ![]() Vote in local and state elections while you can. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. ![]() ![]() I have expanded the text on the points I found most thought-provoking. What follows is a summary of Snyder’s Twenty Lessons. History does not repeat, says Professor Snyder, but it does instruct. Snyder gives twenty important lessons we must learn from history if we are to avoid tyranny. Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, recently wrote a short book detailing the threat of tyranny facing Americans (and the world) today. ![]()
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