Bezos' Anticipatory Capitulation: Obeying in Advance

 Jeff Bezos has killed a WaPo endorsement of Kamala Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/

ANTICIPATORY CAPITULATION: “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given,” Snyder’s “On Tyranny” reads. “In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”

Snyder writes,

<A problem with the very wealthy is that, alas, the least vulnerable have a tendency to think of themselves as the most vulnerable.

And from that position they harm everyone else, while proclaiming that they are simply being neutral or following business interests. But doing what Trump wants in advance only makes it more likely that Trump will have power, and only teaches him that you are easy to intimidate. You are giving the authoritarian power he would not otherwise have. The irony is that the rest of us will have to save the billionaires from their own cowardice.

But that of course is not what this is moment is about. It is about all of us doing the little things we can, the truthful things we can, to get through this moment and come out on the bright side. In the video I explain why “do not obey in advance” is the main lesson of the twentieth century. In my book On Tyranny “Do not obey in advance” is the first lesson. >

VIDEO: https://snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in-advance?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=310897&post_id=150757391&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=1ra4oc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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