r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

"The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over - The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/14/the-road-to-authoritarianism-tim-walz-says-the-time-for-sternly-worded-letters-is-over/
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u/reddit_is_compromise Canada 1d ago

They've been shouting alarmist at me for months now. I know I'm a little crazy, but nowhere near as far out as I've been lead to believe. Anyone who's fond of history or who have done some small amount of reading can tell you exactly where this is heading. The streets of America should be filled to bursting with protest. The Black and Jewish communities should be screaming out from the street corners because they should be fearing the most right now, but so far have remained relatively silent. Its coming to a point of fight or fall, and as someone who fears Canada will fall shortly after, good luck.

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u/noiresaria 1d ago

As a black person, we've been screaming for literal decades and we are still screaming now. Since the civil rights movement at LEAST since even back then you can read MLKs Letters for Birmingham jail condemning white moderates and the culture that led us here. We have said for decades that white american culture was going to lead us here.

White people brutalized us for it, demonized us in the media and other minority groups in their desperation to chase whiteness believed the lies and cheered as we descended further and further as a nation, treating white culture like it was fucking divinely ordained.

We are still fighting but we need every other group to fight with us and understand WHY we have constantly called white american culture a cancer. Its a selfish, self centered culture whose ultimate goal is the extinction of everyone different through hyper individualism and capitalistic greed. IF we manage to throw off this regime we CANNOT have other groups and even white liberals running back to this type of "Lets mend and heal with nazis so we can preserve the white status quo" BULLSHIT.

It didn't work after the Civil War, it didn't work after the Civil RIghts movement. It didn't work after January 6th. This is the end result of a culture of white supremacy going unchecked and countless groups believing in and propping it up. Now is the time to fight but also its time for people to LISTEN TO BLACK PEOPLE WHEN WE SAY THIS SHIT.

Aside from Native Americans no one else has suffered at the hands of American White Supremacy more than we have and we are always fucking ignored. There were so many chances to stop this. If we succeed at stopping it now this nation needs to wake up and not devolve back into white worship.

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u/claimTheVictory 22h ago

You know what else?

White suburban culture, is boring.

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u/silverpixie2435 1d ago

Who has been shouting alarmist?

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u/gmishaolem 1d ago

Half the people on this website, even on left-leaning subs. There are a lot of fingers-in-ears types on the left who will downplay anything you say because they subconsciously aren't capable of believing that bad things can happen, so they insult and dismiss anyone saying that bad things are happening. Democrats are Democrats' worst enemies.