Well said. The only threat of totalitarianism currently facing the US is that narcissistic clown refusing to accept the result of a free and fair election.
If you read the article critically it says how it differs.
You have absolutely no clue. I have close friends who have experienced totalitarianism, and they all see that its home in the US is on the Left and that it’s a real danger.
Yet. For now the big tech companies and corporations seem to be chasing away and censoring any view point that doesn’t meet the group-think standard so they are frozen out of the mainstream. The only reason people are able to create their own media companies (if they even stand a chance against the industry giants in the first place), is because they haven’t been able to turn laws in their favor yet. But with the younger generations buying into the “ruin people’s lives if they don’t think and talk like us” mentality, it’s only a matter of time.
But the evils of Nazism and totalitarianism wasn't fostered on the German people, and others, immediately. It was gradual, eventually gaining momentum until the result we know today. Germany was a republic, know as the Weimar Republic since 1919 or so. Hitler just didn't emerge out of the shadows and became an instant dictator. He ran for the office of Chancellor several times, the last in 1943, but lost to Hindenburg, but Hitler still garnered 43% of the German vote. Because he did receive so many votes, and in addition to the Nazi Party majority in the Reichstag, the opposition had no choice to find a place for him in the German gvt, the largely cermonial office of Chancellor. Well, not long after he was elected, the Nazi majority Reichstag, passed the Enabling Act, which basically gave Hitler limitless power, though still not total, yet. And with the death of the elderly Hindenberg, Hitler combined both offices of President and Chanceller into one, with him in charge. There is no need for me to regurgitate German history, particularly that of the Nazi rise to power, but the essential fact that what happened was a gradual, yet eventually rapidly culminating into a totalitarian gvt. Then again, there were divisions with the Nazi gvt.whom Hitler intentionally did not grant any one organization full power, as he did not want a coup against himself, so he played even his allies in the gvt against themselves to foster rivalries and division. Very, very complicated and devious.On the contrary, I often speak with my friend whose family came to this country from Hungary in 1956. He and his relatives are all terrified that the US may be heading in that direction. When the Common Core State Standards Initiative was introduced, he remarked, “This is communism”. Totalitarianism does not have to come in the form of a Soviet tank. I am not kidding you. You would think that people who lived through what you call “real” totalitarianism would have a higher threshold for defining totalitarianism, but, on the contrary, I think many of them actually have a heightened awareness of how totalitarianism comes in.
No, both Gore and Clinton did concede and the peaceful transfer of power, which had gone seamlessly since Washington retired from office, not trying to be a king, having the first peaceful transfer of power to John Adams.
And here we are today, in 2020, when an incumbent President who lost BOTH the popular vote AND the Electoral College by a landslide, and along with his Republican enablers, (fact, as few Republican lawmakers have spoken up to defend the election results), still thinks he won ( fact, in his own statements), refuses to concede, and refuses to assist in the transition to the next Presidency, refusing access to the information the next Presidents needs, thus hobbling the next President, the republic itself, and the American people. NO other American President in nearly 240 years of a democratic republic, has intentionally tried to undermine and sabotage the office of the Presidency and the republic itself. No judgement, but fact in his refusal to concede and to assist in the peaceful transfer of power. This is sabotage and a scorched earth policy, which not only hurts the next President, but the republic, and the American people, as I've already stated.
If I have made any unintentional statements regarding the current President and his machinations, then I will publically apologize.Totalitarianism doesn’t have to come from the state. It can come from the private and corporate world. It’s a mistake to believe capitalism can’t be totalitarian.
EVERY single lawsuit, scores probably by now, that has been brought to the courts alledging voter fraud have been thrown out, including 9 in ONE day. Multiple election commissions and authorities, too numerous to list here, including those at the Federal gvt. level, have found absolutely NO proof of voter fraud. The courts, election commissions, and numerous officials have found NO fraud. Is this a conspiracy?
Oh, but he has his ace in the hole, Rudi Giuliani, who made a public announcement of his promotion in front of a landscaping company and an adult bookstore (not making any judgements), who spouts conspiracy theories and falsehoods, who tucks in his shirt a lot in motels with a woman) whom posed as, and whom he thought was 14 years of age. Fact, on tape, published, and part of a Borat film. Not passing judgment, of course, on an adult man (wanting to be alone with a 14 year old <actually a 25 year old actress> in a sleazy motel room) is in charge of the lawsuits. He hires only the best people, and Giuliani, who is graciously working pro bono, is the creme of the crop of all attorneys whom he could have chosen, or rather, the only individual who desired to be in charge of such an enviable and prestigious position. The best of the best. A person can be judged by the people whom he surrounded himself and with whom he keeps company.