The step by step nature in which autocracy is created allows more people to come along for the ride.

…resisting somehow.” But that moment never came. “That’s the difficulty,” the philologist told Mayer. “If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes millions would have been sufficiently shocked… But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you to not be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”
This Is How It Happens
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
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Sep 9, 2020
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The step by step nature in which autocracy is created allows more people to come along for the ride. Thanks for wiring about this.
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Written by Dr. Allison Wiltz69K Followers
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Black womanist scholar with a PhD from New Orleans, LA with bylines in Oprah Daily, Momentum, ZORA, Cultured. #WEOC Founder
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