"This is amazingly stupid": Paul Krugman spots another reason US verges on "authoritarian rule" (but there's GOOD news)
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/04/10/this-is-amazingly-stupid-paul-krugman-spots-another-reason-us-verges-on-authoritarian-rule-but-theres-good-news/
Paul Krugman thinks he's spotted a sign that the nation is teetering on the brink of "authoritarianism" (though he must have a different definition of that word than rational people):
Paul Krugman ~ We're heading down the path of Hungary. The outrage in Wisconsin was just the latest step.
Keep in mind this is from somebody who could barely contain his glee back when the stock market took a huge plunge at the start of the coronavirus outbreak:
Yet the scariest news of the past week didn't involve either epidemiology or economics; it was the travesty of an election in Wisconsin, where the Supreme Court required that in-person voting proceed despite the health risks and the fact that many who requested absentee ballots never got them.
Why was this so scary? Because it shows that America as we know it may not survive much longer. The pandemic will eventually end; the economy will eventually recover. But democracy, once lost, may never come back. And we're much closer to losing our democracy than many people realize.
This is just the kind of thing we've come to expect from the NY Times' resident Nobel laureate:
RBe ~ We're on the way to dictatorship because ... *checks notes* ... we're not quarantining everyone in their house and not allowing them outside?
Think about what RBe just said for just a second, Paulie ... and maybe ... just maybe ... someday ... the REALITY of the stupidity you just spewed might start to dawn on you like a brick to the face, you f**king moron.
Karl Crary ~ The "outrage" in Wisconsin was an election being held on schedule as required by law.
(((Aaron "Worthing" Walker))) ~ This is just amazingly stupid. In Hungry, their leader has been given the power to rule by decree.
in Wisconsin, the governor tried to cancel the election *by decree,* was stopped by the courts, and Krugman is complaining that makes us more like Hungary?
Ian Patrick Hines ~ ... we're headed down the path of Hungary, which suspended elections because we ::checks notes:: refused to suspend elections?
Amazing, right? But wait, there's some good news:
Tom Bevan ~ I'm reassured by this knowing that everything Krugman writes is wrong.
So we've got that going for us.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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