What I find more frightening than the existence of those that utilize totalitarianism and authoritarianism, is the failure of even this author to recognize that those isms are tools in the pouch intended to gain much more than just the acceptance and agreement of the population for any particular issue. The goal is much worse and more pernicious than that. It is the total destruction of any form of self confidence. Its no longer acceptable to have an opinion formed within your own mind or to believe that such has any purpose to exist--one must seek out the approved and consensus opinion to have and to live by. If we need an opinion about the LGBT community, we must ask the LGBT community. If we need an opinion on the rape 'crisis', we must ask those that see a crisis. If we need an opinion on alcohol, we must ask Carrie Nation.

But we must never ever have our own opinions based on our own experiences and facts and rational thought, particularly if it differs from or didn't originate from the consensus of those that have a right to form an opinion--even if those only represent less than 5% of the population.

But what's important is that you don't have an opinion or trust yourself to form one. You can have no respect of yourself as an individual. You must ask.

I feel compelled to make a few observations, which are meant to illustrate and affirm the message of this article. My authority comes from having lived for 18 years (from age 9 to 27) in a totalitarian communist regime.

Strictly speaking, "America is not yet creating" Nazis or Stalinists. Yes, there are numerous other "species" of that "genus". It is really important to recognize the evil of the genus. In that connection, notice the relabeling of their movements to avoid recognition.

The historical totalitarians all spoke of creating the New Man and of the education necessary to change all the people into the new mold. Notice that they really do not mean education, which I would define as an effort to develop, in each individual, the rational and cognitive skills and to instill the knowledge which humanity has accumulated throughout its evolution. No. By education they mean indoctrination.

I have, for decades, tried to illustrate to people that totalitarianism is to the humans what cancer is to the living tissue. A degeneration of all the basic life processes. I think that it is a true analogy.

Notice that we used to be a country of individual freedom, rights of property, of pursuit of happiness and freedom of speech (which, of course, means the freedoms of thought and of conscience).

Those freedoms and rights are all, as the author demonstrates, under attack nowadays. All of us, and I mean truly all Americans, still willing to think with their own heads and who still cherish those freedoms and rights, must resist and organize ourselves to resist always and everywhere the totalitarian indoctrination. We must help people understand the true nature of that onslaught.

Finally, I would like to ask you all to resolve that you will not, if it comes to that, under even the most painful tortures, concede to the torturer and renounce yourself as an upright and free human being.

People of Belgrade, on March 27, 1941 overthrew the government of Yugoslavia, after it had signed a pact with Hitler. They chanted in the streets: "Better grave than a slave!" Magically, it rhymes in my mother's tongue just as it does in English. This 5-year old boy still remembers that day.

Yes, there are things for which it is worth risking one's life. Ask the people who volunteer for our military services. Ask Ayn Rand and her Kira in "We the Living".

Take all this, please, as food for thought and as one man's opinion.

The citation is excellent. Pol Pot was a totalitarian educated at the University of Paris where it is said he could quote any passage of Marx by memory. He realized as Plato taught that he must educate the people but only uneducated could be properly given the new education so he shot the ones with their own ideas and any form of education. Under all this is the hatred of the independence of the human mind and its necessity of personal freedom. So the " auto de fe" of the inquisition was a way of burning a human to death to return their souls to god from their own false ideas. This is what dominates the left today:. Hate of the human mind which will not believe.
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"Yes, I mean people like actor George Takei and his odious attack on Justice Clarence Thomas. Takei called Thomas a “clown in blackface” and said Thomas had “abdicated” his status as an African-American."

And this from the man who supports the party that had him, PERSONALLY, put into a concentration camp because of his race.

It's the old, "you are either with us or you are against us" pattern. Politicians want to mold children via government schools to be compliant and accepting of beliefs, but not hold their own idea about it. They are not above using cognitive dissonance, hypnosis or the Delphi Technique to train the minds of children and parents alike. Politicians want to criminalize free thought that disagrees with their goals. We are in for some very bad times.

"This attitude promises social warfare without end, because there is no peace to be had until the opposing side offers a sincere and unconditional surrender."

It promises, ultimately, more than SOCIAL warfare.

to get a real feel for a totalitarian government yopu need to see "A SENSE OF LIFE" the video made about 1990 about Ayn Rand. Then it should be shown to the entirety of those who were elected to SERVE US.

Sounds like: nazi's, communist, marxist, liberals, progressives, radical gays, environmentalists, vegans, vegetarians [and anyone more concerned about earth but not the life upon it] global warming freaks, islam and of course isis!

Human Rights are considered by humans to be inalienable. The right to Life, Liberty & Opportunity is what makes us human.
If an individual does not understand & believe in the nature of humanity, that individual cannot be human, They are an alien specie and a natural enemy to humanity & must be dealt with accordingly.

Human slavery can only be practiced & accepted by aliens to humanity. The negro was formally regarded as sub-human which made their enslavement acceptable. Something like taming & using wild horses to ride & pull. But, most humans are capable of learning & reasoning & acting on their own if given the opportunity. This is why 'black' slavery eventually failed.

There is greater enslavement by fear, superstition, ignorance, coercion, debt & force today than ever before. The only way to prevent slavery is to empower the individual to recognize & avoid enslavement by any means.

I've got it! Why not follow the example of the jihadists and use religion to convince the great unwashed. Catholics will be forced, if they don't comply to say 1,000 "Our Fathers" and 2,000 "Hail Marys." Jews will need 30 Yom Kippurs (day of atonement) in a row. Muslims will do a solid two months of Ramadan. With that hanging over their heads, they'll have no choice but to toe the line.

Thanks for posting this. I myself have already sometimes called today's Leftist 'Totalitarians' and posted this on FB.

Isn't that kind of ironic, how much that sounds like the treatment of Germany after its defeat in 1945 ?