This is a question better asked in 1860.
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever necessary.
Not without about 150 million deaths at the hands of the willfully disarmed.
Will?
In a word...yes. And it will gain the approval of a majority as the compassionate thing to do.
Did you mean, “When did?”
Man wake up already! We have long past the point where US citizens could be considered free.
If you want to believe the “nah, ain’t gonna happen here” crowd, the answer would be, no.
Eventually. History is revolving door of kings and serfs, with the serfs gaining control for but a fleeting moment now and then.
Look around. We already are...
It basically means that the Feds will have to get everyone to participate. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to happen.
Of course the third party dreamers, Ron Paul Paulshiveks, and priestly robe self-styled prophet types will hear none of that.
I think we are pretty much there Dude. At this point the question is how do we get the republic back?
It’s certainly headed in that direction. To those who say, “we already are”, come on, don’t be ridiculous. Go to North Korea and see how differently they live from how we do. But progressivism is step one on the path to totalitarian communism, and the progressives are firmly in charge of the national government right now.
Our best hope then IMHO is to defend the Constitution in its original design (as amended) as much as possible, which includes federalism as guaranteed under the 10th Amendment. Republicans, even conservative ones, are in firm control of more than half the states, and way more than half of the territory at the local level.
All of those places need to become/stay as free as possible given the constraints imposed by the federal government, and then we will just watch as people “vote with their feet”, just like they have for generations between Havana and Miami, or North and South Korean, or the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt, and even now from California to Texas.
As the blue states/areas begin to collapse upon themselves from losing all of their productive citizens, and turning the rest into government-dependent drones, the real battle then will be about how much money the federal government can rob from the productive citizens, states, places to stave off bankruptcy in the rest of the country. If the Republicans can keep a majority in the House and 40+ in the Senate, then it will be hard for the progressives to get much more of our money.
To me it feels more like a Banana Republic. With an out of touch dictator party boy living his do as I say not as I do party life, massive cronyism and incompetence. Talking all the time about what needs to be done but being to lazy and to uninterested to even get done most of the wacko things that even his own side wants.
> Will America Become A Totalitarian Country? <
Yes. Americans, as individuals, aren’t willing to put everything they possess or hope to posses on the line to be free. A cowards choice they make for themselves but which effects and enslaves their children and grandchildren, etc., etc..
Text below is copied from this link: http://www.wrisley.com/cycle.htm
Cycle of Democracy
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
“From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
“From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.”
Dr. Alexander Tytler, a Scot professor, wrote a scholarly tome, from which this concept comes, called “The Athenian Republic” which was published shortly before the thirteen American colonies gained independence from Britain. “Google” him to learn more.
To late to be asking the question. I say it already has.
Yes, it is.