{"id":261198,"date":"2021-08-03T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=119541"},"modified":"2021-08-03T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:43:08","slug":"the-road-to-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/03\/the-road-to-totalitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to\u00a0Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>People can tell themselves that they didn\u2019t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cTHIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to show you all those signs out again. People like me have been pointing them out, and reading them out loud, for 17 months now. Anyone who knows anything about the history of totalitarianism, how it incrementally transforms society into a monstrous mirror image of itself, has known since the beginning what the \u201cNew Normal\u201d is, and we have been shouting from the rooftops about it.<\/p>\n

We have watched as the New Normal transformed our societies into paranoid, pathologized, authoritarian dystopias where people now have to show their \u201cpapers\u201d to see a movie or get a cup of coffee and publicly display their ideological conformity to enter a supermarket and buy their groceries.<\/p>\n

We have watched as the New Normal transformed the majority of the masses into hate-drunk, hysterical mobs that are openly persecuting \u201cthe Unvaccinated,\u201d the official \u201cUntermenschen\u201d of the New Normal ideology.<\/p>\n

We have watched as the New Normal has done precisely what every totalitarian movement in history has done before it, right by the numbers. We pointed all this out, each step of the way. I\u2019m not going to reiterate all that again.<\/p>\n

I am, however, going to document where we are at the moment, and how we got here \u2026 for the record, so that the people who will tell you later that they \u201chad no clue where the trains were going\u201d will understand why we no longer trust them, and why we regard them as cowards and collaborators, or worse.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s harsh, but this is not a game. It isn\u2019t a difference of opinion. The global-capitalist ruling establishment is implementing a new, more openly totalitarian structure of society and method of rule. They are revoking our constitutional and human rights, transferring power out of sovereign governments and democratic institutions into unaccountable global entities that have no allegiance to any nation or its people.<\/p>\n

That is what is happening \u2026 right now. It isn\u2019t a TV show. It\u2019s actually happening.<\/p>\n

The time for people to \u201cwake up\u201d is over. At this point, you either join the fight to preserve what is left of those rights, and that sovereignty, or you surrender to the \u201cNew Normal,\u201d to global-capitalist totalitarianism. I couldn\u2019t care less what you believe about the virus, or its mutant variants, or the experimental \u201cvaccines.\u201d This isn\u2019t an abstract argument over \u201cthe science.\u201d It is a fight \u2026 a political, ideological fight. On one side is democracy, on the other is totalitarianism. Pick a fucking side, and live with it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s where we are at the moment, and how we got here, just the broad strokes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s August 2021, and Germany has officially banned demonstrations against the \u201cNew Normal\u201d official ideology<\/a>. Other public assemblies, like the Christopher Street Day demo, one week ago, are still allowed. The outlawing of political opposition is a classic hallmark of totalitiarian systems. It\u2019s also a classic move by the German authorities, which will give them the pretext they need to unleash the New Normal goon squads on the demonstrators tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Christopher Street Day demo (Photo Credit: Der Tagesspiegel)<\/p>\n

In Australia, the military has been deployed<\/a> to enforce total compliance with government decrees \u2026 lockdowns, mandatory public obedience rituals, etc. In other words, it is de facto martial law. This is another classic hallmark of totalitarian systems.<\/p>\n

In France, restaurant and other business owners who serve \u201cthe Unvaccinated\u201d will now be imprisoned<\/a>, as will, of course, \u201cthe Unvaccinated.\u201d The scapegoating, demonizing, and segregating of \u201cthe Unvaccinated\u201d is happening in countries all over the world. France is just an extreme example. The scapegoating, dehumanizing, and segregating of minorities \u2014 particularly the regime\u2019s political opponents \u2014 is another classic hallmark of totalitarian systems.<\/p>\n

In the UK, Italy, Greece, and numerous other countries throughout the world, this pseudo-medical social-segregation system is also being introduced<\/a>, in order to divide societies into \u201cgood people\u201d (i.e., compliant) and \u201cbad\u201d (i.e., non-compliant). The \u201cgood people\u201d are being given license and encouraged by the authorities and the corporate media to unleash their rage on the \u201cthe Unvaccinated,\u201d to demand our segregation in internment camps<\/a>, to openly threaten to viciously murder us<\/a>. This is also a hallmark of totalitarian systems.<\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is where we are.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t get here overnight. Here are just a few of the unmistakable signs along the road to totalitarianism that I have pointed out over the last 17 months.<\/p>\n

June 2020 \u2026 The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 2020 \u2026 The Invasion of the New Normals<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

October 2020 \u2026 The Covidian Cult<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

November 2020 \u2026 The Germans Are Back!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

March 2021 \u2026 The New Normal (Phase 2)<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

March 2021 \u2026 The \u201cUnvaccinated\u201d Question<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

May 2021 \u2026 The Criminalization of Dissent<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

June 2021 \u2026 Manufacturing New Normal \u201cReality<\/em>\u201c<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now, here we are, where we have been heading all along, clearly, unmistakably heading \u2026 directly into The Approaching Storm<\/a><\/em>, or possibly global civil war. This isn\u2019t the end of the road to totalitarianism, but I\u2019m pretty sure we are in the home stretch. It feels like things are about to get ugly. Very ugly. Extremely ugly. Those of us who are fighting to preserve our rights, and some basic semblance of democracy, are outnumbered, but we haven\u2019t had our final say yet \u2026 and there are millions of us, and we are wide awake.<\/p>\n

So pick a side, if you haven\u2019t already. But, before you do, maybe look back at the history of totalitarian systems, which, for some reason, never seem to work out for the totalitarians, at least not in the long run. I\u2019m not a professional philosopher or anything, but I suspect that might have something to do with some people\u2019s inextinguishable desire for freedom, and our willingness to fight for it, sometimes to the death.<\/p>\n

This kind of feels like one of those times.<\/p>\n

Sorry for going all \u201cBraveheart<\/em>\u201d on you, but I\u2019m psyching myself up to go get the snot beat out of me by the New Normal goon squads tomorrow, so I\u2019m a little \u2026 you know, overly emotional.<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, pick a side \u2026 now \u2026 or a side will be picked for you.<\/p>The post The Road to\u00a0Totalitarianism<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People can tell themselves that they didn\u2019t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read \u2026 \u201cTHIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.\u201d I\u2019m [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post The Road to\u00a0Totalitarianism<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[480,307,830,6,12373,833,312],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261255,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261198\/revisions\/261255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}