against the will of a majority of the people. Not a happy thought. This isn't the 1920s either. Most modern communities could be brought very promptly to their knees merely by blocking the roads and turning off the water. How about power? Most subdivision homes would turn into ovens in the summer, and many would be unsustainable in winter also and have to be abandoned. Possible resistance leaders could be identified and picked up before they even got started.

But at least losing our rights would clear up a lot of the fog of stupidity in people so spoiled by a lifetime of security that they haven't even begun to realize what they have to lose. But also with deeply inculcated notions of individual rights and freedoms Germany's culture had never had a chance to develop.

The good thing about going to the original article is that you also see what the author(s) think is important, versus what some aggregator wants you to see (click-bait.)

Have them re-posted on other liberal sites like Raw Story, who were one of the pioneers for liberal media on the net. So that stories like this can be seen by more people, other than those that are frequent visitors to Moyers own personal website.

I mean heaven forbid there was a site that posted news articles and editorials from other places and folks could comment on them...............oh wait

sites?

They should have posted the link to Moyers own blog.
But if you click on his name in the title lines, you are taken to a separate Bill Moyers page that contains all of his past pieces they posted. But I get where you are coming from. I don't know why they didn't do this for Moyers, as they usually do, if you check their main stories. If its from another newspaper article they hotlink it back to it. And they also have their own reporters. Maybe Moyers has an arrangement with them for having his own page? I'm not sure he set up his own blog to make money from that anyways. Maybe he'd just be glad to have more folks see what he wrote. But yeah, he should still be entitled to linking some traffic back to his own blog.

But besides that small injustice, my point stands for me that its more important to distribute good and important articles like this, especially with the ever shrinking venue for liberal voices as Republican owned media monopolies gobble them up.

this in the past 4 years, BUT NOT ONE OF THE WRITERS CAN TELL US AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO DEAL WITH IT!

should all be thinking about very seriously. For nearly 4 years, Trump has been moving toward more and more authoritarianism. We have seen it, talked about it, but done nothing.

Moyers is exactly right that it is now happening before our eyes. Trump is consolidating his power, putting a private militia in place at the WH, and ready for an all out open coup. Make no mistake. He will try it. He is not just posturing now. He is preparing for it and has already taken the first step. Whether he succeeds depends on various factors, e.g. military response, leaders who might oppose him and rally people behind them, the ability to maintain communications against orders to disrupt Internet, phone, and media services, and many other factors.

We should think now about what we will do when things get worse, as they will the more Trump realizes that he does not have a chance at the polls.

steamroller, shouting out witty aphorisms as we're flattened.

So when I say that we need to think about what we will do, I guess I'm referring to each of us as individuals or small groups in our communities. How will we get through what's coming and help our communities to hold together, too?

To do that requires some perception of what will or might happen in order to prepare for it. But, who knows how it will play out? So we need to imagine what could or might happen and be prepared for it as much as possible in areas of communications, utilities, medicine and health, self-defence fighting, etc.

So, for example, if Trump orders the elections cancelled or invalidated, you know the American people will rebel openly in the streets, and that wiil mean an authoritarian military crack down. Maybe regional losses of utilities. Maybe street fighting back. Maybe a general social breakdown.

Maybe nothing like that. Maybe there will be enough pushback from real military authority that Trump will just flee the country in a private jet.

Perhaps somebody will stand up to Trump in a way that actually makes him back down.

We don't know. So we prepate for the worst and hope for the best.

"In 1933, the Reichstag building was set on fire, which Hitler used as a pretext to seize emergency powers and detain his political enemies. With communists and other leftists under arrest, he was able to push a law called the Enabling Act through parliament. The Enabling Act allowed Hitler's cabinet to institute legislation without parliamentary consent. As Hitler strong-armed his way to dictatorship, profiles of him rusticating in his residence in Obersalzberg, Bavaria, portrayed him as a cultured gentleman, beloved by dogs and children."

https://www.livescience.com/54441-how-hitler-rose-to-power.html

My main image of the dump is as a petulant child trying to snarl like a rabid animal.

I think we’re out of luck.

Thank you Bill Moyers.

Is Trumpy's way of expanding "The Palace Grounds".

Any bets on how long the new perimeter around the White House stays up?