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South Korea's President Yoon to lift martial law declaration
(www.reuters.com)
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And the Fascists keep seeing other authoritarian regimes get away with something, and think to themselves, "well if they can get away with that... What can I get away with?"
I generally hate to make everything about us, but I can't imagine this having happened had Israel and the US not have successfully succombed to their fascist tendancies in current events.
Democratic ideals are in direct conflict with ideologies of "because I can" might makes right.
I doubt this is over, but I hope it isn't overlooked that this right wing authoritarian coup was only extinguished because the parliament members successfully climbed over fences to vote it down in the face of military force threats.
It really exemplifies the fragility of democracy and civil rights, and the need for active defense of them.
I'm kind of blown away by this too. The sentiment here on Lemmy following the US presidential election was palpable by people in other countries, and how this might have ripple effects in Europe and beyond. I suppose it's easy to underestimate the influence of US military, trade, and soft power abroad from within these borders. Still, the idea that politicians and leaders elsewhere would just freaking copy our homework, especially when we're doing our best to fail the class, is mind-boggling.
Jefferson was quoted as recommending a re-write of the constitution every 19 years. So the fragility of all this stuff, and the need to keep with the times, was well-known by the founders at the very start. By that clock, we are decades overdue for some amendments. Then there's the really famous quote:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
For the record, I appreciate how absolutely metal this quote is. At the same time, I greatly dislike it because it suggests that violence is the right choice right out of the gate. I prefer to take this advice as, eventually, violence is the only option remaining.
Honestly, I think part of the rot that is happening is precisely because the modern nation state model seems to be causing mass misery, resignation, and wealth concentration at a cartoonish scale.
I think Jefferson had a point in that admittedly metal quote that many miss in appreciating it.
In our pursuit of perpetual stability, mostly for the sake of large scale long distance commerce which has been elevated to the point that even incentivizing families and children has become a distant secondary priority, we've lost something that is absolutely essential for civilization to progress rather than stagnate and regress:
The renewal of societies that can only come from painful but necessary collapse of the old systems that no longer serve the interests of those that support them.
People can't afford small homes NOW anymore. If this system remains stable does that mean, as wealth continues to concentrate, that most will be unable to afford so much as a sleep crate from Bezos's grandchild after a 14 hour workday?
I argue that, painful for the generation(s) that bear it as it is, sometimes the score needs to be reset, or the misery will be perpetual and multigenerational.