Mary Trump - Democracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed. [View all]
Lesson One in Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny is “Do not obey in advance.”
He writes:
Most of the power in authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Jeff Bezos has succumbed to the kind of anticipatory obedience Snyder was describing. about in order, it would seem, to protect his Amazon fortune from a Trump administration that will be steeped in vengeance against Donald’s enemies, real and perceived. Because, although, according to The Columbia Journalism Review, an endorsement of Kamala Harris had already been prepared and was ready for publication, Bezos made the decision to pull the paper’s endorsement and instructed William Lewis, the publisher and CEO of the paper, to write a transparently awful justification of it.
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