Creeping Authoritarianism

🐾 Creeping Authoritarianism Looks Like This:

• Leaders discrediting the press as “fake news”
• Gradual weakening of judicial independence
• Demonizing dissenters and activists
• Using fear (crime, immigration, threats) to justify control
• Consolidating power in the executive branch
• Shifting laws to favor one party or leader indefinitely
• Surveillance creeping into everyday life
• Censorship disguised as “protection” or “patriotism”
• Loyalty tests over competence for public positions
• Protesters labeled as threats instead of citizens with rights

Sounds familiar?