{"id":7859,"date":"2025-02-24T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:15:53","slug":"the-rise-of-autocracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-rise-of-autocracies\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of autocracies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>One major reason that rich democracies are more stable is that capitalist development disperses human, financial, and organizational resources away from the state, generating countervailing power in society.<\/p>\n<cite>Steven Levitsky &amp; Lucan Way: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/We2w5#selection-1925.68-1925.275\">The Path to American Authoritarianism<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you only read one summery of the dangers of the Trump presidency, the above is a good one. It provides examples from 20th century on previous autocratic ambitions and how they&#8217;ve played out. Worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only halfway through February of his first year and I&#8217;m already so utterly tired of seeing the face of him or his cronies. It&#8217;s time to look over our own houses \u2013\u00a0Sweden &amp; EU \u2013\u00a0 where the authoritarian tendencies have been on the rise the past thirty years. Just yesterday AFD came in second in the German elections, and that&#8217;s a straight-up fascist party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One major reason that rich democracies are more stable is that capitalist development disperses human, financial, and organizational resources away from the state, generating countervailing power in society. Steven Levitsky &amp; Lucan Way: The Path to American Authoritarianism If you only read one summery of the dangers of the Trump presidency, the above is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-rise-of-autocracies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The rise of autocracies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}