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The ruling class may decide that a traditional authoritarian coup, with military control and suspension of the rule of law, may be necessary in order to consolidate and sustain what is already, de facto, something close to a global fascist takeover.
In 1987 it was revealed, briefly, that the US has a secret protocol in place for the suspension of the Constitution. https://twitter.com/cordeliers/status/792417831694569472?s=20
Already, corona hysteria has allowed to ruling class to seize power and suspend democracy de facto in most of the Anglophone world and Europe, where government by decree has supplanted the legislative process and basic rights have been revoked in practice.
In New York State, for example, Governor Cuomo issued numerous diktats and changed 262 laws in 55 days under color of a public health emergency. His authoritarian rule continues long after virus deaths in the state have dwindled to insignificance. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/With-Legislature-idle-Cuomo-changed-262-laws-in-15240581.php
Mostly poor and non-white Australians were forcibly locked down in public housing projects under emergency orders ... https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/420514/covid-19-melbourne-public-housing-towers-under-lockdown
while protesters were beaten and arrested. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54139669
Continuing broken thread. https://twitter.com/cordeliers/status/1324366911602331655?s=20
