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Frank D. Lincoln

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53. Hope.

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:33 AM

Jan 16

What I see happening today is that democracies around the world have gradually become autocratic. It seems to be a global trend. Sometimes the citizens of a given country have chosen to give up their democracy. I never thought that would happen to the United States.

The wave of the future seems to be the end of democracy on a global basis.

Autocratic leaders are coordinating with one another to cause more and more democracies to fall.

Once democracies are lost, the rulers then consolidate their power.

In the final analysis, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with hope.

It seems like it has to do with inevitability.

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