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"Origins of Totalitarianism" (Published 1951)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times.' -- Washington Post (2017)

• https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism.html?id=zGE8DgAAQBAJ

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Hannah Arendt with Lessons for Today

What are your political acts, and what politics do they serve?

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hannah_Arendt.jpg

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests

The Human Condition

The University of Chicago Press

Arendt, Hannah (1970)

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_Human_Condition_-_Hannah_Arendt.jpg

• https://www.amazon.com/Human-Condition-Walgreen-Foundation-Lectures/dp/0226025934/

• https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hannah-Arendt/author/B000AQ4I5W

Review: In ‘Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt,’ a Thinker More Relevant Than Ever

The German-Jewish philosopher, Johanna "Hannah" Arendt is famous for the phrase "the banality of evil," which she coined after observing the trial of Nazi Holocaust organizer Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. She devoted her life to writing and speaking about human rights, the importance of thought as (as well as in addition to) action, and the nature of power. (IMDB)

• https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/movies/vita-activa-the-spirit-of-hannah-arendt-review.html

“Vita Activa” includes some especially chilling implications for the current state of American politics. Totalitarianism rested, in Arendt’s view, above all on the systematic refusal to engage reality, on the substitution of ideological fantasy and outright fiction for reason and empiricism. To risk understatement, those tendencies have hardly disappeared from modern society, and may even be stronger than they were at the end of Arendt’s life.

Act Now to Protect Our Future

"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Protect_Democracy.png

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Donald J Trump talks of termination, a suspension of the US Constitution

Insurgency? A President Declares Protests as Cause to Invoke...

Take Another Look at the "Insurrection Act"

• https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867467714/what-is-the-insurrection-act-that-trump-is-threatening-to-invoke

(Wikipedia)

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law that empowers the president of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.

The act provides a "statutory exception" to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the use of military personnel under federal command for law enforcement purposes within the United States.

Brennan Center for Justice

Guide to Invocations of the Insurrection Act (2022)

In 230 years, the Act has been invoked in response to 30 crises

• https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-invocations-insurrection-act

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