Down the Garden Path...
/Meet Stacy Abrams, via Wikipedia: “born December 9, 1973... an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017...” What interests me about Ms. Abrams today, however, is her ten-step warning about the path democracies take as they slip into authoritarianism. Abrams’ 10 Steps were apparently based on the research of Kim Lane Scheppele, Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton. I’m going to list those ten steps below, and I’m going to restrain myself: I’ll list each without comment.
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