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The Many Guises Of The Totalitarian Impulse
American Thinker ^ | 27 Jul, 2021 | Thomas Buckley

Posted on 07/27/2021 3:54:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the West, totalitarianism always paints itself as a beneficial and streamlined way to govern, so it’s important to understand what’s really going on.

Wouldn’t it be nice and fair and simple if all the voting systems across the country were the same?

Wouldn’t it be nice and fair and simple if every school in the nation were equally as good?

Wouldn’t it be nice and fair and simple if everyone had access to robust and identical health care programs?

Whether or not one agrees with these statements, it must be said that they have a certain visceral appeal – what could be wrong with structural equality? – and they have a definite rhetorical advantage because if one does not see their merits, one must, therefore, be in favor of structural inequality.

And it is this rhetorical advantage that is so sublimely being used now – and always has been used throughout history - to mask the woke’s quest for dominance.

For each of the above notions – among countless others – have something important in common: The need for centralization; that is, the need for a centralized power to determine and then enforce exactly what equal means. And that requires people to wield that power.

Totalitarians seldom attempt to gain power based on a platform that overtly and specifically states that they plan to take over your personal life, control societal interactions, and re-set cultural norms as much as possible. Instead, they use these types of pleasantly barbed “nice, fair, and simple” hooks ad nauseum to win the public’s trust.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 07/27/2021 3:54:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was no more slavery to the state.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 3:54:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil!

Progressive #Progressive_Caucus
Socialist #Venezuela
Marxist #BLM
Fascist #Nazi's (Erdogan’s Turkey)
Communist #Antifa
Dictator #ComDem_Covid19_Dictators
Islamist #ISIS
Bureaucrap #the_Swamp

All Evil. All Fail.

Freedom Works.

It's TIME to DownSize DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

3 posted on 07/27/2021 4:11:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: MtnClimber

“Safety” trumps all. Who in their right mind would question “safety?”


4 posted on 07/27/2021 4:30:10 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audits. No peace.)
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“nice, fair, and simple”

“common sense” should’ve been included in the phrase above. As in “common sense gun control”.


5 posted on 07/27/2021 4:32:54 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wouldn’t it be nice to be free?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have liberty?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have individual rights overruling any collective rights?


6 posted on 07/27/2021 5:04:21 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


7 posted on 07/27/2021 7:14:27 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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