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The End of America?
American Institute for Economic Research ^ | March 19, 2021 | Naomi Wolf

Posted on 03/20/2021 12:24:46 AM PDT by antceecee

In 2008, I wrote a book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of a slide toward totalitarianism.

I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps. Whether it’s “Invoke a Terrifying Internal and External Threat,” “Create a Thug Caste,” “Target the Press,” or the final step, “Suspend the Rule of Law,” these steps are always recognizable; and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At that time, the “global threat” of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms. (Excerpt)

We – my brave publisher, Chelsea Green, and I — are releasing the first and last chapters of The End of America now, in 2021, for free, and I am calling the sequel to this book, which I am now writing, Step Ten – because as of March of last year, we have indeed, I am so sad to say, arrived at and begun to inhabit Step Ten of the ten steps to fascism.

Though in 2008, I did not explicitly foresee that a medical pandemic would be the vehicle for moving the entire globe into Step Ten, I have at various points warned of the dangers of medical crises as vehicles that tyranny can exploit to justify suppressions of civil rights. Today, a much-hyped medical crisis has taken on the role of being used as a pretext to strip us all of core freedoms, that fears of terrorism did not ultimately achieve.

(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; coronavirus; fascism; liberty; policestate; power; tyranny
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1 posted on 03/20/2021 12:24:46 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: antceecee

A liberal sees the evil going down by the uniparty.....


2 posted on 03/20/2021 12:26:10 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: antceecee

America has gone down the path of every Republic. Decide whether you’ll be wearing the boot, or be under it.


3 posted on 03/20/2021 12:41:56 AM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: antceecee; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

[The End of America?]

Don’t be silly. If that were truly happening, they’d erect fences with barbed wire and razor wire around D.C.

They’d also be spending money like the Weimar Republic.

And the media whores would pretend none of it was happening, but blame anything that did happen on Emmanuel Goldstein and followers.

Choco rations going up 2 grams next week.

Double-plus good, eh?


4 posted on 03/20/2021 12:47:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Yes, bump and bookmark


5 posted on 03/20/2021 12:50:20 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Mr. Blond

I was surprised this was written by rabid liberal feminist. She sees that no one will be spared under tyranny.


6 posted on 03/20/2021 12:53:34 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: antceecee

This is big and could be bigger than most people think or “thinking people thing”.

Klein was a hardcore political leftist but she has seen something so shocking of the true nature of the American Left, that she is now speaking out against it.

Let’s see how her “friends” treat her now that she has begun to speak out against the Marxist/fascistic Left.


7 posted on 03/20/2021 12:55:46 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I pray for those who are brave and speak truth. Listening to Wolf’s words was refreshing in that she correctly describes the tyranny.


8 posted on 03/20/2021 1:01:46 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: higgmeister; amorphous; Roman_War_Criminal; SkyPilot

9 posted on 03/20/2021 1:07:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYCRVNFVc2M&t=776s


10 posted on 03/20/2021 1:08:20 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: antceecee

[A liberal sees the evil going down by the uniparty.....]

Shocking.

And without exception, it seems, every New World Order Globalist hates Pro-America President Trump.

They came right out of the woodwork. Every one of them.


11 posted on 03/20/2021 1:12:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Pretty much! I found this story on Thomas Wictor’s site... https://social.quodverum.com/web/timelines/public/local.
just another info communication source...


12 posted on 03/20/2021 1:14:14 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: antceecee

This kind of stuff portends the rise of Antichrist.

And 1,260 days after he confirms the 7-year peace covenant that divides Israel for “peace and security” - the Mark of the Beast arrives.

Having gained mass control over the various populations by fear, things will never return to normal.

Expect more calls for a “global community” etc.

Just like pope-a-dope Frankie just did.


13 posted on 03/20/2021 1:17:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: antceecee

Can’t see it (no account).

Can some of the text be posted here? (about to head off to bed)


14 posted on 03/20/2021 1:18:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Here is an excerpt
In the immediate wake of the announcement and narrativization of that pandemic, most of the elements of a locked-in 360 degree totalitarianism have been put into place, in most of the countries of the West, including in what had been robust democracies. It all happened very quickly and comprehensively.

In the United States we now have:

Emergency measures in many states, which suspend due process of law. This is the hallmark of a police state. Covid-19 is invoked as the reason for the introduction of emergency law – but there is no endpoint for lifting these emergency laws.
The closures of schools, which break the social contract with the next generation.
Bills being passed for “vaccine passports,” which bypass the Fourth Amendment to the constitution by allowing the government and Big Tech companies to intrude on medical privacy and to create a comprehensive digital surveillance state.
Forced closures of businesses. By intervening directly in the economy and allowing certain businesses to flourish (Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target) at the expense of small businesses, Main Street shops, restaurants, and sole proprietor businesses in general, the State has merged government and corporations in a way that is characteristic of Italian fascism, or of modern Chinese communism. (Indeed the fact that tech stocks rose by 27% in one quarter of the pandemic shows one driver of this war against human freedoms and human society: every minute human beings spend in a classroom, at the pub or restaurant, or in a church or synagogue, is time that tech companies lose money by being unable to harvest that data. Covid policies driven by “Covid-19 Response” – tech companies – ensure that humans are not allowed to connect except via digital platforms. The reason is profit as well as social control).
Restrictions on assembly. Some states such as California are fining people for seeing their friends in their homes, and making it unlawful for kids to have playdates with their friends. Massachusetts restricted gatherings of more than ten people at a time, forcing synagogues and churches to stay closed, in spite of a Supreme Court ruling against states forcing churches to close. Parks, playgrounds and beaches have been closed off. In countries such as Britain, people are fined for leaving their homes for more than an hour’s exercise a day.
Forced face coverings. In Massachusetts, people are fined if they are not wearing masks outdoors – even children as young as five are forced to do so by law. Again this mandate has not been undergirded by peer-reviewed studies showing medical necessity; and there is no endpoint proffered for these extraordinary violations of personal freedom.
Suppression of free speech. Big Tech companies are censoring critics of Covid policy and vaccine policy, as well as censoring views that are on the right hand of the political spectrum. “Incitement,” a word that has a long history in the 20th century for closing down free speech, has been weaponized by the left to shut down First Amendment freedoms of expression. In other forms of censorship and management of speech and public debate, tycoons such as Bill Gates have been funding major news outlets, with millions of dollars directed to “Covid education.” As a result, dissenting voices are marginalized and shamed, or even threatened with legal action or job losses.
Science has been hijacked in the interests of “biofascism.” By heavily funding scientific commentators such as Dr Fauci in the United States, Imperial College and SAGE in the UK, and Dr Christian Drosten in Germany, a dominant set of policies and pronouncements about Covid that benefit a small group of bad actors – notably tech and pharmaceutical interests, acting in concert with governments – have had secured credentialled supporters. But when other scientists or institutions seek debate or transparency, they are threatened with job loss or reputationally attacked, as in the case of Dr Simon Goddeke of the Netherlands, who was told to keep quiet by his university, when he challenged the flawed Covid PCR test protocols.
Data have been hijacked to serve the interests of this biofascism. This manipulation of truth, which I foreshadowed in The End of America, is typical of the Soviet censors. Covid platforms such as Covid19tracking and John Hopkins University, funded by technocrats such as Michael Bloomberg, serve unverifiable Covid data that directly affect the stock markets. Again, while this un-American merger of corporate interests and public policy is reminiscent of Italian Fascism, the twist provided by digital data presentation and its relationship to the stock market is very much of the 21st century.
Attacks on religious minorities. The orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, and Christian churches in California, have been singled out for punishment if they do not follow Covid rules – a targeting of religion that is characteristic of Communist policies on the left, especially in China.
Policies that weaken bonds between human beings and weaken the family have been introduced and policed. This is the most serious development of all.
The new biofascism in the West, very much driven by Big Tech leaders, and soon to be exploited by our enemies geopolitically, is a war against free human beings and against the qualities that make us human.

Masks break human beings’ ability to bond face-to-face and enjoy human contact, smiles and jokes. Masks turn down the effectiveness of human “technology,” by making it hard for us to “read” each other and to pick up social cues. Forbidding assembly keeps us from forming human alliances against these monstrous interests. Forbidding human assembly also prevents new cultures, new heroes and new business models from arising. We are all stuck with the Rolodex and the ideas we had in March of 2020.

Forcing kids to distance at school and wear masks ensures a generation of Americans who don’t know HOW to form human alliances, and who don’t trust their own human instincts. Those are counterrevolutionary training techniques.

Driving all learning onto (already prepared) distance learning platforms ensures that kids do not know how to behave in human space, space not mediated by technology.

Many Covid policies seem designed to ensure that humans will have no “analog” space yet or “analog” culture left – no way to feel comfortable simply gathering in a room, touching one another as friends or allies, or joining together.

Lastly, driving all human interaction onto Zoom is not only a way to harvest all of our tech, business secrets and IP – it is a way to ensure that intimacy and connection in the future will be done online and that human face-to-face contact will be killed off.

Why is this? Why develop policies that punish, encumber and restrict human contact in analog (unsurveilled, unmediated) spaces?

Because human contact is the great revolutionary force when it comes to human freedom and resistance to this form of comprehensive biofascism – the biofascism represented by the New Normal – the medico-fascist Step Ten.


15 posted on 03/20/2021 1:25:13 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

She’s a “3rd Wave” GenX feminist. This is awesome and astonishing.

We should soon find out how the “4th Wave” Millennials and how the Elitist Rulers treat her.

She misses one key facet of the covid phenomenon: probably 95% of people, and almost 100% of children, now believe other healthy and innocent people are killers just by breathing. And they get angry or dismissive and silent if you dispute this.


16 posted on 03/20/2021 2:18:39 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: antceecee

Make sure you put a credit/link on there so you don’t get in trouble..


17 posted on 03/20/2021 2:29:21 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

She is already a target of cancel culture simply for appearing on Tucker Carlson.


18 posted on 03/20/2021 2:33:08 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Klein was a hardcore political leftist”

Who’s Klein?


19 posted on 03/20/2021 3:10:42 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: antceecee

Wolf us right you know, But the problem is that America cannot be informed because of a traitorous media.

We can ask ourselves why Biden and Co. have established cess pools of Covid infected South Americans who carry covid 19 variants.

These pools are meant to make sure as many of the young become carriers of Covid 19 as possible by keeping them in crowded conditions by the thousands until the majority are spreaders, and then putting them on transport only to go into various cities in the United States, with Texas being the first target.

This is why Fauci is crowing against Rand Paul in saying we need to stay masked because of variants.Fauci knows whats coming.Rand does not.

The plan is to extend the epidemic and maintain draconian control over America for as long as possible.

Its really very bald and evident. No one is talking about it.Its so bald that even the most objective of our Congressman cannot face the facts staring them in the face, at least not publicly, as Biden and Co. prevent any press or Congressional access to these fascist created cess pools of Covid 19 soon to become vectors of national infection.

No wonder Biden and Co. are maintaining troops stationed in Washington along with 12 foot fences topped by concertina wire.

Soon one of these variants will not respond to the available vaccines which will then become superfluous, necessitating a secondary round of research and subsequent genetically engineered vaccines.

This is a nightmare. But if the liberal fascist can play their vaccine cards just right with prejudice,they can maximize the disease in every red state to which they will send their spreaders and kill off as many deplorables as possible.

So this is depopulation control 101. And any one mentioning it will be declared a wingnut, a racial supremacist , and dismissed into ignominy.

Is my imagination to active? Maybe. But when you look at all of these variables, one can conclude that America is being run by genocidal maniacs purposefully putting not only AMERICA IN DANGER, BUT THE WHOLE WORLD.

Any bets on when the unstoppable variant will arise. perhaps
with a little help from the scientist from the Wuhan labs?It will be likely ne 6 months before the 2022 election.

We are in the grasp of not just “Democrats” but truly in the grasp of liberal fascists. Real fascists who mean to reign continuing destruction on America, and the world.

Its really time that the opposition gird themselves and join battle.It will be the red states against the federal government. They have to meet those transports of Covid 19 infected illegal aliens and refuse them entry into their states, whether its legal or not.


20 posted on 03/20/2021 3:31:34 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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