The 2020 election will be the most important election in a very long time. We are in danger of losing our democracy. Trump’s authoritarian tendencies are well known. The book “How Democracies Die” explains that democracies can and sometimes do become undemocratic. This sometimes happens violently (e.g., the coup in Chile in 1973) but more often happens as a result of a gradual process (e.g., Venezuela, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey). If Trump is re-elected, we may literally lose our democracy.
“How Democracies Die” not only documents how some democracies died, it also documents how some democracies that were in danger of dying were saved. One of the most important ways in which some countries were saved from losing their democracies was that political parties that had very different ideological stances realized the threat posed by someone who had authoritarian tendencies and joined forces, temporarily, to defeat that threat. It is in this spirit that I call on all supporters of the Green Party to vote for Joe Biden in 2020.
@TedFullerVT