[PGalt]

Totalitarian ways are unsustainable.

[Openurmind]

“Totalitarian ways are unsustainable.”

Which is why North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, And China are free republics.

Unfortunately this is not always true.

[Starboard]

“Totalitarian ways are unsustainable.”

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But still sustainable for long periods of time, even generations. The system is set up to benefit and reward those who wield power to protect the regime. We have something uncomfortably close to that right here now, and once embedded in the system the symbiotic corruption and power apparatus is a very hard thing to reverse.