🏃🏽‍♂️ Slow Motion Coup

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📡 On my Radar

Democracy's decline rarely happens overnight. Like a slow leak in a tire, the erosion begins years before the system fails entirely.

Historical analysis shows that in the 5-10 years before democracies slide into authoritarianism, this happens:

• Government policies benefit business tycoons with close ties to elected officials, while the wealth of ordinary people declines.

• People become divided based on ideology and economic class. Populist leaders further these divisions.

• Charismatic political leaders rise who claim to be the only ones “speaking for the people.”

• Technology and data manipulation reduces personal privacy.

• The end of shared cultural narratives like “American exceptionalism.”

• Systematic efforts begin to discredit independent journalism.

• Government workers are fired for their political beliefs.

• The system of checks and balances breaks down.

• It becomes impossible to determine what is true.

• Attacks on judges become commonplace.

• People stop believing in science.

Sound familiar?

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📈 By the Numbers

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