The Tides of Freedom: The Slow Drowning of Democracy
THE TIDES OF FREEDOM
The Slow Drowning of Democracy
When democracy dies, it doesn't always fall with a crash. Sometimes it drowns-slowly, quietly, one policy at a time.
On the Caribbean island nation of Puerto Libertad, constitutional scholar Sofia Dominguez watches in disbelief as a populist leader rises to power despite losing the popular vote. What begins as political theater soon becomes something far darker: mass deportations, detention centers, journalists silenced, universities purged, and citizens reclassified as "non-persons."
As Sofia's own brother disappears into the regime's machinery, she must choose between the safety of academic neutrality and joining a dangerous resistance-a network of doctors, journalists, priests, and military officers who refuse to let democracy die without a fight.
A gripping political thriller that reads like tomorrow's headlines.
The Tides of Freedom traces the anatomy of authoritarian takeover through the eyes of ordinary people forced to become extraordinary. From the manipulation of courts and media to the weaponization of bureaucracy against the vulnerable, this novel illuminates how quickly the unthinkable becomes normal-and how courage can turn the tide back.
"Democracy is fragile. But it's not helpless."
Written by a scholar of migration and society, this powerful work of fiction creates the cognitive distance necessary to see our own political moment with clarity. The novel includes an analytical epilogue examining democratic backsliding in contemporary societies.
For readers of It Can't Happen Here, The Plot Against America, The Handmaid's Tale, and 1984-a story for our time about the slow erosion of freedom and the stubborn human insistence on dignity.
"Some things, once lost, can be found again. But only through courage, sacrifice, and the stubborn insistence that human dignity cannot be registered away."
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