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To: xzins
"The judge, jury and executioner are all in one place," said Anna Harmon, the Kleins' attorney. "He is intent on using his office to root out thought and speech with which he personally disagrees."

TOTALITARIANSM:
1. the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
2. absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.
3. the character or quality of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, group, or government:

Among the most lethal forms of totalitarianism have been the Nazi, Soviet, Communist Chinese and Islamist, (and progressive) varieties.

59 posted on 07/09/2015 8:20:20 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

Thats not a really good definition of totalitarianism. Look at it this way:

Authoritarians want control.

Totalitarians want control AND your conversion to their beliefs.


70 posted on 07/09/2015 8:27:56 AM PDT by tanknetter
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