Book: Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny"

I took a short break away from fiction and read "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century".  Timothy Snyder lists twenty things that facilitate or are characteristics of authoritarianism.  Unfortunately, as I read through the twenty chapters I realized that all twenty are occurring today in America.

I have always been a pessimist.  Reading this book, my feelings toward my country just became more pessimistic.  It would be bad enough if it were just one or two signs but they are all there in plain sight, and they are all being called out on social media.  Our country is sauntering into authoritarianism in full view of everyone and most of America is ignoring it.  I swear, if we get out of this mess, it will be because of some stupid accident, and not anything we have done.

I gave this book four stars out of five on Goodreads.  Everyone needs to read this book but not enough will.