How could this possibly come from the BBC?
Just which totalitarian state are they referring to? The one choosing lunches for hundreds of millions of schoolchildren regardless of geography, sex, age, body size, weight, etc? The one that wants to stick calorie counts on everything from gum on the sidewalk to NY strip steaks at Ruth’s Chris?
The state that allows itself to be defrauded for billions in Medicare and then claims hospital costs are too high and we must all buy insurance plans they approve of to ‘bend the cost curve?’
The state that taxes fuel and promises it will bill roads and bridges with the funds only to give them to people building the equivalent of science fair projects and choo-choo trains?
The state that watches a tech/internet boom that has transformed the national and world economy through free market competition and innovation and then declares that it must implement something called ‘net neutrality?’
The state that shrugs at home burglaries and car break-ins but wants to pursue verbal altercations as hate crimes worthy of draconian sentences?
The state that regards a 5 ft diameter puddle as a navigable waterway subject to overzealous EPA fines and threats?
The state that knows full well the sex, age, race, eye color, hair color, nationality and religion of 99.9% of terrorist suspects but still insists on strip-searching a Swedish-American Lutheran grandmother in a wheelchair from Bismarck, SD?
The state that will not rest until everyone is hurtling down the highway in balsa wood vehicles that can meet a ludicrous 54 mph fuel mileage standard?
Just stop with the totalitarian nonsense. The state is only looking out for us.
Great analysis until the author decides that opposing Saddam or Islam is the same as totalitarianism. Then, we’re just operating at the level of dumbed down Liberalism.
What do they mean “foresaw”? He lived in Tsarist Russia. That was about as totalitarian as any nation got before the
Bolsheviks made it even worse.