The Creep of Totalitarianism

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

—Norman Thomas

I came upon this quote and immediately thought that it fairly well defines overall what may be happening in the Unites States in these harrowing times. Since the time of my youth, the days of John F. Kennedy, we have lived through decades of a gradual transition of socialist sentiments and actions in our country, becoming more and more socialist every day without much notice or acknowledgement. We have seen our universities, K–12 school systems, the media, the entertainment industry, large companies, philanthropic organizations, and many other entities transition from being idealistic to socialist, largely unnoticed — until today we are up against a winner-take-all constitutional crisis of a fraudulent election where the forces of socialism have laid their cards on the table for all to see. Would a Biden and/or a Harris administration be a massive socialist conversion of our country into a totalitarian state? Probably not right away. But given what has happened already, it could very well be the proverbial socialist straw that breaks democracy's back.

There is little question that the vast majority of the mainstream media disparages Republicans at every turn, and immediately dismisses any argument they present to the contrary of their group-think narrative as baseless, while they continue only to praise Democrats. These are the same people that bury any Democrat misdeeds (Clinton emails, Hunter Biden, etc.) while advancing critical faux narratives against Republicans (Russian collusion, questionable impeachment, etc.) without a smidgen of diligence or credible evidence. Why did the mainstream press seem to bury Republican legal challenges regarding the 2020 election, calling them false on day one, before any evidence was even produced and analyzed?

Let us not forget Nikita Khrushchev's quote: "The press is our chief ideological weapon." A press that regularly sides with only one point of view and takes no accountability begins to resemble Khrushchev's primary ideological weapon. A Biden/Harris presidency would only cement a state-controlled media establishment that fulfills Khrushchev's vision.

Benjamin Franklin said: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." There is censorship not only by the historical press, but within all other forms of communication with the public that did not exist in the time of Khrushchev. Why would Twitter and Facebook subdue reports of Hunter Biden's relationships with Ukraine and China and emails with possible ties to his father, termed the Big Boss?

Meanwhile, the president was subjected to an intense three-year investigation regarding demonstrably made-up charges of collusion with Russia to win an election that resulted in a finding that there never was any collusion. What would a correspondingly similar aggressive three-year investigation into Hunter Biden's emails produce? In a society with free speech, we would know. With the direction we are headed now, however, with social media and other censorship, we may never know.

Also concerning is the silencing of conservative voices across the realm of academe. Countless authoritative conservative speakers have been banned from speaking in front of students at major universities. Upon a Biden presidency with the sympathetic support of Twitter, Facebook, other social media, universities, and others, we could find ourselves bearing out Ben Franklin's observation, abandoning our own liberty by subduing the freeness of speech even beyond Khrushchev's historical press standards.

Today's election crisis serves as a case in point for Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza's assumption of power under faux election circumstances when he said: "Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count." Is it possible for a presidential candidate in the United States to legitimately have the votes to win but then lose the election to the counting of those votes? It would seem that is what we are looking at right now – a virtual Banana Republic takeover, Samoza-style.

Of the many elections happening around the world, there are still many totalitarian states, as indicated by the Somoza quote above, that are controlled by manipulating the election counts. In dispute at present with the 2020 presidential election is the flood of mail-in ballots that may have distorted the 2020 election results through the vote-counting process in Democrat-controlled cities. How can we know if this is true? It requires total re-verification and re-counting all mail-in ballots from Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Las Vegas before the existing counts and the election result could be believed. Absent that, as implied by Somoza, Trump may have won the election, while Biden won the count.

Any transformation to a totalitarian state must be resisted. Plain and Simple. It is time to either stand up to the creep of socialism or roll over and accept whatever comes next. It is time to push back against Black Lives Matter, Antifa, social media, the press, leftist entertainers, your school's curricula, or any force that has served as socialism's handmaiden.

We must never forget the words of Andrew Jackson:

“Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty; you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.”

As individuals, it is our turn to pay the price of freedom to ensure our democratic republic's survival and have its blessing secured.