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The United States and the Republic of China (the official name for Taiwan) \u2014 one of the world\u2019s most vibrant and functional democracies \u2014 have had a formal defense relationship since 1955. Last week, Donald Trump \u2014 who\u2019s been withholding since last year two shipments totaling $25 billion worth of US military hardware Taiwan has purchased \u2014 said that relationship is now a \u201cbargaining chip\u201d to get what he, his oligarch friends, and his family want from China.<\/p>\n

Read more The sleeping giant just woke up as angry nonvoters are about to rock midterms<\/a><\/p>\n

America was founded on the idea that democracy \u2014 a form of government that our Founders discovered functioning well among Native American societies, as I lay out in The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity\u2019s Ancient Way of Living<\/em>\u2014 was our north star, the core concept around which all our actions revolved.<\/p>\n

We fought Great Britain to establish democracy, fought against the fascist Confederacy to preserve democracy here in America, and helped fight German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese fascists to preserve and restore democracy in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n

After winning each battle, we became a little more democratic, enfranchising women, formerly enslaved people, and even 18-year-olds. We welcomed the diverse people of the world, groaning under oppression and poverty, to share our democracy and the free enterprise system it enabled.<\/p>\n

Most of the countries in today\u2019s world, however, have little use for democracy. Certainly, Putin, Xi, and the Middle Eastern sheiks view it as a threat to their wealth and power. Most of the smaller countries across the world are dominated by wealthy families (oligarchy) or violent warlords (autocracy); during the decades I did international relief work, I spent time in many of them.<\/p>\n

And yet we always fought for democracy, even though we started out imperfectly. We helped create the United Nations, a democratic institution. We fought and died for European and Asian democracy. We encouraged democracy around the world through foreign aid programs like USAID and through pro-democracy advocacy operations like the Voice of America.<\/p>\n

Until Trump.<\/p>\n

Today, we have a president who holds democracy and democratic nations in disdain. He openly ridicules our democratic allies while sucking up to and praising autocrats and oligarchs. He gutted USAID, killed Voice of America, and even tried to overthrow our own democracy \u2014 and will probably try again.<\/p>\n

His racist, homophobic, and \u201cpoorly educated\u201d followers agree with his disdain for democracy, openly embracing his despotic proclamations because he hates the same people they hate. Republican politicians who once defended American democracy cower before his threats of revenge when, like Senator Bill Cassidy, they don\u2019t join him in embracing Putin and fail to nakedly cheer Trump\u2019s violations of international law.<\/p>\n

Foreign billionaires like the Fox \u201cNews\u201d Murdochs and the Middle Eastern sheiks who\u2019ve poured billions into Trump\u2019s family are apparently happy to see our democracy under assault. About a hundred domestic billionaire families are enthusiastically willing to trade democracy and the free press it requires for tax cuts and deregulation.<\/p>\n

So, what happens if they win?<\/p>\n

What happens if America finally, fully abandons the alliances we\u2019ve built up over 250 years and instead embraces this autocratic new world order of Putin, Xi, and the corrupt billionaires who run most of the world\u2019s autocracies?<\/p>\n

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If we formally pull out of NATO or, simply, quietly continue the process of abandoning the alliance? If we leave Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and South Korea to the tender mercies of the Chinese Communist Party? If we continue our embrace of \u201cAmerica\u2019s coolest dictator,\u201d Bukele in El Salvador and Rodriguez in Venezuela, and let their authoritarianism continue to metastasize across our hemisphere?<\/p>\n

If the GOP and its billionaire owners manage to muzzle all but a token remnant of our once-vibrant free press, if ICE becomes Trump\u2019s and Vance\u2019s personal Schutzstaffel <\/em>and throws open their \u201cdetention centers\u201d to the \u201cliberal\u201d Americans they\u2019ve already designated as \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d? If they continue to follow Putin\u2019s system of tightly regulating who\u2019s eligible to vote (while corrupting Democrats like Fetterman) so Republicans never lose?<\/p>\n

What happens if they win?<\/p>\n

Then the wealthiest people on Earth finally get the world they\u2019ve always wanted, from the days they opposed the American Revolution, to fighting against Lincoln, to \u201cAmerica First\u201d billionaires trying to hire Smedley Butler to assassinate FDR, to now supporting Trump:<\/p>\n

A world where democracy is weak.
Labor is powerless.
The press is controlled.
Religion is weaponized.
Elections are managed.
Fear keeps people obedient.
And billionaires rule without accountability.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the oligarch\u2019s endgame and has been for millennia. It\u2019s why they bought off Sinema, Manchin, Golden, and Fetterman and are inserting themselves in elections across the nation. It\u2019s why they\u2019re buying our media. It\u2019s why Republicans in Congress keep sending more and more of our taxpayer money to ICE while ignoring Trump\u2019s multiple impeachable offenses from war crimes to emoluments violations to the open betrayal of our democratic allies.<\/p>\n

Not \u201cmaking America great.\u201d
Not patriotism.
Not Christianity.
Not freedom.<\/p>\n

Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Raw power for a small handful of morbidly rich men, enforced by propaganda, corruption, and violence, both committed by agents of the state (against Comey, James, Schiff et al<\/em>, and soon to be directed against you and me) as well as J6 freelancers Trump is trying to pre-pay with $1.7 billion just in time for this fall\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

Roughly every 80 years, it seems, the battle to preserve democracy comes back around and confronts the generation then living. And here it is again.<\/p>\n

The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it.<\/p>\n

Read more The sleeping giant just woke up as angry nonvoters are about to rock midterms<\/a><\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s our turn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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