The historical examples are all there – one way or another, all over the place. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed and our heads clear – and our calm in the face of adversity: Putin and Trump are and have been for years:
Best buddies.
In a little over a month now Trump is going to take office. He’s prepared his way to dictatorship.
Once they unite all the countries still free will have to make an effort to stay free.
Why? He wouldn’t start war on half the world?
No, it would be even easier. Plain blackmail could do it, from both sides.
Gas from Russia, high taxes on goods, trade and military support denials as well as harsh negotiating on the side of the US.
You name it.
Be prepared! We need freedom of thought and opinion and press (!) as well as political or private calling.
What’s free in that sense?
Freedom of opinion, press, thought and way of life. The human rights.
Because even now the first signs are there on the horizon that traditionally free and independent media are wondering; starting to ‘count their words’, mind their ‘ps’ and ‘qs’, as it were.
There’s a documentary about that too: From 2017, when the president-elect in the US took office for the first time.
He was adverse and fighting the press whenever they reported the truth, no matter what, about him. Calling it fake news and condemning them. The Supreme Court Justices are made up of a majority of justices that stem from his followers, his ‘ranks’.
Only recently the charges against him were dropped on account of him being in office for the time when illegal Russian influence with his knowledge and consent veered votes towards him in 2017.
Free?
All those with huge amounts of money are more or less behind him. Which accounts for a constant, ongoing press campaign.
And anyone a little knowledgeable about the way of marketing knows that anything goes – as long as it is published. The juicier, the more impact.