Robert Reich Just Responded to Comey’s Firing By Revealing The 17 Signs of Tyranny
Before the inauguration of President Trump, Former Secretary of Labor and progressive champion Robert Reich published the 15 tyrannical warning signs that the American people should look out for. Today, for the second time, he updated the list, this time to reflect Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
It is truly alarming that in just 100 days, Trump has so fully committed to every chilling detail of the dictator handbook that he is now adding to it.
Reich called it perfectly.
The 17 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny (now updated).
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern — claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities and refugees bans.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals into top civilian posts.
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
16. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
17. Fire prosecutors who get too close to discovering the truth about them.
