Friday, November 25, 2022
The Emerging Totalitarian Technocracy
In a free relatively open system of government, elections are held and special interests vie for ascendancy. If the system of voting is relatively simple and strait-forward, a party gains power by convincing — or conning — a majority of the voters to favor them. As the rules change and become more complex and nebulous, a party can add degrees of fraud to wrest power through less legitimate means. Even in those circumstances, political interests battle it out while the voters go about their personal lives hoping their side wins in the next round.
The tell-tale sign that a system is on the road to a loss of freedoms is when a faction seeks to actively delegitimize and eliminate opposing views. This is the terrible circumstance we in America — and many other countries — now find ourselves in. The public knows this. Leaving the stage of mere election fraud we have entered the slippery slope where the powers of state work in coordination with powerful corporatist entities (particularly in communications media) to reduce debate to non- debate.
So far, Republicans, representing the more conservative side of the political spectrum, have not called to banish their opponents. Trump never sought to use the powers of government to criminalize the very existence of the left side of the spectrum. The case today is far different and should be of concern to all.
No one seriously thinks that the current president is fully in charge of his faculties and decisions. Whoever is running the show is clearly committed to imposing an extreme leftist ideology upon the country. Not to “progress” but to radically alter the country’s system of government — to eliminate the constitutional order, the country’s traditions, and economic vitality. The end goals are clearly to put central political authority firmly in control over the daily lives of citizens and ultimately to facilitate allegiance to a global order that will surveil, judge, restrict, and punish all who are not on board with their “revolution.”
America’s Democrat party, under the heavy hand of leftist bureaucrats, an inept president, and a radically politicized “Justice” department has been actively seeking to criminalize any political position they see as threatening their mission.
So it is that Republicans in general and “MAGA” Republicans in particular are described as terrorists, extremists, and “threats to democracy.” The Garland “Justice” department has become something akin to the police apparatus of the former Soviet Union or Eastern block communist dictatorships. Under the contemporary Democrat party, one can be at serious risk of being arrested by early morning SWAT raids and imprisoned with no charges for over a year, all for the “crime” of voicing support for “America First” or the virtually outlawed desire to “make America great again.” Trespassing in a government building is now an “insurrection” even though it had been done numerous times before by their team, with no repercussions. If Antifa or Black Lives Matter had been the culprits, several paintings and sculptures would have been damaged and attempts to burn the building down would have been made. There are people currently imprisoned who never even entered the Capitol building.
The former president (and future opposition to the Democrats) has had his home raided, his taxes scrutinized (with no evidence of any crime), and he and his family and associates have been perpetually persecuted. Why? He wants to,”Make America great again.” Specifically, to lower taxes, deregulate the economy and allow the country a position of energy independence and economic vitality. Along with these sober stances are the typical Republican positions of a strong effective military and respect for the individual over conjured Marxist collective abstractions.
To any honest observer, several recent elections have been opened to widespread manipulation and fraud. Even if that were not the case, the system has become so muddled in bizarre schemes (unsolicited mail-in voting, ballot “harvesting,” drop boxes, etc.) that a large portion of the electorate has little faith in honest election outcomes. Hardly a recipe for democratic governance.
In spite of nonsensical projections and hoaxes, the flag-bearers of radical leftist thought are not the victims they perpetually claim to be. They hold the levers of power virtually everywhere. It’s the common citizen who would dare wear a MAGA hat that need fear the shock troops of Antifa or some other crazed person or group.
On several occasions, the current president has made it clear that his party and administration will literally not permit Trump to run (not allow voters to decide). In essence, the Democrats will now decide who is permitted to run against them. Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney may be approved but anyone to the right of them is now to be branded a “domestic terrorist.”
This is the current domestic slide into tyranny. What truly makes it different from prior attempts at eliminating freedom is the technology at the disposal of authoritarian minions. It is no longer a “conspiracy theory” to note the “transformations” the world would be subjected to by the likes of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, Justin Trudeau, Emanuel Macron, et al. Already, in several countries, the ground is being laid for mass-surveillance, vaccine “passports,” social credit scores, and digital currency that can be controlled by an international authority.
The totalitarian mindset is as old as tribes and cave-dwellers. In modern times, even the most ruthless control-freak was constrained by societal standards that demanded competition in the realm of ideas. If you wanted to enslave a population you had to at least concoct a phony justification. Now, you just arrest your enemy, call his or her followers domestic threats, and prepare to monitor every citizen’s behavior and beliefs.
There have been massive protests across the globe against schemes like vaccine passports, phony election outcomes, and degrees of Covid lockdowns. Establishment media has been a willing facilitator of looming tyranny (how many legacy media outlets have shown the thousands of citizens in Brazil who knew their election was stolen?).
We can take some satisfaction in knowing that not everyone is going to go peacefully into the night while tyrants and technocrats plan world-enslavement. Let’s hope that the former outnumbers the latter.