“Democracy” and “autocracy” are synonyms, not antonyms.
The new America has liberty as its mortal enemy.
But I realize that Buchanan means the America in Exile.
“Democracy” is leftist totalitarianism. The Founding Fathers knew that, and it’s why we’re not one, despite the left attempting to make us one.
Whatever...the current iteration of so-called “democracy” in this country sucks and cannot stand!
I’d say “Idiocracy” (such as we are living under now) is the greatest threat, and America’s mortal enemy.
I haven’t soon bigger autocrats anywhere in the world than Joe Biden’s Millennial handlers.
Russia seems to be merely autocratic. China and Iran are either tyrannical or just shy of getting there.
Woke-ism is driving the US more toward tyranny than autocracy.
Tyranny is what we should fear and oppose.
“Democracy” is at least as threatened by self-professed democrats as it is by autocrats. We have evolved sophisticated means of controlling opinion that are in advance of what the Russians or Iranians are doing. The idea of “convergence” applies now to America and China more than it did in the Cold War years.
Takes one to know one.
The trash in charge (and will stay in charge if they have to initiate martial law) are tyrants — the enemy of all mankind.
https://im1776.com/2022/03/18/anarcho-tyranny/
anarcho-tyranny is “the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety.” A follower of James Burnham, Francis believed that the “managerial revolution” established the sociological, economic, and cultural conditions for anarcho-tyranny. He emphasized our dependence on bureaucrats and experts, which resulted in a “managed pacification” and the “usurpation of previous autonomous social functions.” Anarcho-tyranny as a natural outgrowth of modern bureaucracy. Bureaucrats engineer a “fake problem” to perform “fictitious functions” to “foster the illusion that the state is doing its job.”
Government isn’t “one size fits all”, what works for us, doesn’t work for everybody.