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US Is Now Closer to a Dictatorship Than a Democratic Republic
Former President Ronald Reagan once famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Notwithstanding the Cold War, Reagan’s words may have been considered somewhat hyperbolic at the time. Today, they are appropriate.
While painting a dresser on Sunday, I listened to a replay of the previous night’s version of Fox News’ “Watters World.” When that video ended, an April 2015 speech from journalist Glenn Greenwald entitled “Edward Snowden and the Secrets of the National Security State” came on, and covered with paint, I listened to it.
Greenwald discussed the National Security Agency’s collection of billions of communications of ordinary, law-abiding U.S. citizens. He emphasized the point that, even then, 6 1/2 years ago, America was closer to a totalitarian state than a democracy. Thinking about it, I realized he was right.
And if Greenwald was right then, how much more do his remarks apply today?
President Joe Biden has been in office a little over nine months, and his administration’s actions have steered the country on a direct path toward authoritarianism. His regime thinks it’s okay to force Americans into choosing between taking a controversial vaccine or losing their livelihoods, to monitor our bank accounts for all transactions over $600, and to sic the FBI on parents who confront school boards about their children’s curriculums.
Needless to say, if the Trump administration initiated any of those actions, he would have been impeached — again.
American politics have always been messy. But the corruption that began in the Obama administration has deepened and accelerated to a dangerous level.
In 2015, the deep state began an effort to spy on potential 2016 Republican presidential nominees. After it became clear that Donald Trump would win the party’s nomination, Obama administration officials sent spies into his campaign in an effort to derail his candidacy. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which she essentially controlled after bailing it out financially via Marc Elias, then a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, hired Fusion GPS to prepare a dossier of damaging stories about Trump.
Then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama in July 2016 about Clinton’s actions, and he did nothing to stop it.
Using this collection of false stories, the FBI, once a highly revered U.S. institution, applied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for a warrant (and three renewals) to tap the communications of Trump campaign staffers, looking for anything that might destroy his candidacy. It began investigations into Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, junior campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, and others and, after Trump’s victory, arrested them. And the FBI was aided every step of the way by a complicit media.
Following an interview with dossier author Christopher Steele’s primary subsource in January 2017, the FBI knew the allegations against President Trump were lies. Yet then-FBI Director James Comey weaponized his agency against him anyway, hoping to force him out of office.
After Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions was convinced by several Department of Justice insiders to recuse himself from the FBI’s investigation, the ethically challenged Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. The ensuing investigation cast a shadow of illegitimacy over Trump’s presidency and facilitated a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, which led to two bogus impeachments.
The deep state conducted business as if it was leading a third-world dictatorship.
Next, skirting the state legislatures, Democrats used the pandemic to change the way elections would be conducted, allowing the introduction of mail-in voting on a massive scale. This opened the door to what I continue to believe was a stolen election.
No one has ever been held accountable for any of this malfeasance. In fact, the DOJ just reinstated the pension of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Sessions after the DOJ inspector general found he had lied repeatedly to investigators.
The dubious Biden victory has brought the U.S. closer than ever before to becoming a totalitarian state. The Biden administration itself is the most serious national security threat America faces today.
What can we do about it?
Virginia and New Jersey voters can send a powerful message to this administration by getting to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots for Republican candidates Glenn Youngkin and Jack Ciattarelli. That would be a good start toward the restoration of sanity in the country.
The rest of us can continue to resist. We can and we must engage in civil disobedience.
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Unless you begin by auditing the 2020 election there is no going back. Exposing the stolen election is the only way to resist because all else is lost if we don’t. That should be clear, especially in light of all that you’ve written.
I don’t agree with every Republican politician. In large part, that is because I can disagree with a Republican politician; it is permitted to argue with Trump or Cruz or Crenshaw. Argue with a Democrat and you’re an apostate, and must be expunged. Left wingers seem to want heroes and saviors. I already have a list of heroes and a savior, thank you very much.
So, rule #1: vote Republican. Accept that it may require holding your nose. Don’t make it absolute, I have voted for some good Democrats, but never above the county level. This is a modern day reduction of Heinlein’s rule about voting: when in doubt, vote against.
Some of us tried January 6 th.
They have been vilified by the GOPe and many are political prisoners sitting in solitary confinement 10 months later for what amounted to a charge no higher then trespass.
EV, this is a great post. Thanks to you, I am about twenty minutes into the linked video, and Greenwald is just crushing it.
I remember hearing him on Hugh Hewitt back in the day, and have had him marked as one of the good guys with whom I frequently disagree. His work with Assange and Snowden has certainly paid the freight of his journalistic claims, and for ten years or so, he has been one of the few lefties whose opinion matters to me. Time and again, his opinions have proven to be grounded in facts he can’t talk about at the time.
Thanks!
So is there more paint on you or on the dresser?
This is already true. The alleged President guffaws at freedom…and gets applause.
We are surveilled, tracked, photographed and videotaped. Out mail is imaged. Our purchases recorded and analysed all to allow mega corporations to manipulate us. And we do this voluntarily. But it’s ok because in exchange we get look at free cat videos and humorous photos.
I’m in a pickle. We must do everything because we do not know which avenue will lead to success. Obviously, resource constraints force prioritization of approaches. Yet we also must not continue to do that which has brought us to this sorry pass, as more of the same will most likely get us more of the same. And this is where I get off being so black-pilled on the fackless GOP etc etc.
So I’m torn between “we tried for ten years to change the party from within and we got communism” and “we got our guy elected!” Naturally, the Trump-haters (who also don’t like apple pie) say that these are the same thing. But it ain’t so, Bob. The election of Trump forced the deep state to expose themselves, and they deposed him. And us, by the way.
Donald Trump got Ned Starked, and now he’s being Goldsteined. And us, by the way.
The NSA seems to be the action agent for the CIA/FBI/DNC/CCP types, and its proxies in industry (Google, MS, Apple, Amazon, FB, Twitter) do the heavy lifting. It’s a digital, domestic version of extraordinary rendition, and we are all being rendered. Like Boxer from Animal Farm.
You paint this picture of a totalitarian stateand then completely refute your argument by stating that the election of Republican candidates candidates is a way of ‘sending a message ‘ and partially undoing the totalitarianism. Totalitarian regimes don’t allow this to happen.
I don’t refute your statements about the nefarious nature and actions of Perkins-Cole and how they played the bureaucracy. I quite agree with two minor quibbles. It was Bush who started by building this leviathan after 9/11 and the FBI has ALWAYS been what it is today. Hoover was a disgusting creep and his baby was a political manipulator from inception. He was just the first to take advantage of never let a crisis go to waste as he took advantage of Prohibition and celebrity bank robbers and criminals. That also started under Republican administrations.
We aren’t a totalitarian nation. We are a nation where an attempt is being made to turn us into a one-party nation through manipulation but by convincing people to elect them and change election processes to their advantage. Those advantages could backfire if Republicans were creative since there are far more of their potential voters who don’t vote.
We are not yet a Totalitarian nation, but there are two powerful Totalitarian movements in the country: Climate Totalitarianism and Racial Totalitarianism. The former is exemplified by the Green New Deal; every single societal prerogative must be aligned to the goal of “preventing climate change.” The latter is exemplified by CRT; every single societal prerogative must be aligned to the goal of “racial and gender equity.” Republicans, who tend to be naïve and stupid, think these are just issues Democrats use to energize their base but aren’t serious about, because that’s what Republicans have historically done with hot-button issues that they do nothing about; like border security or eliminating useless Federal agencies. But the Democrats are dead serious about imposing totalitarian and climate and racial ideology.
You also cannot leave out mass immigration as a factor in creating a totalitarian one-party state. California is already there, thanks largely to 1 out of every 4 Californians being born in another country. Mass immigration was also a major factor into flipping Virginia into a solidly blue state. It’s why Democrats are adamant about having open borders and taking in as many third world migrants as possible under the guise of “refugee resettlement” and dropping them into states and districts they want to flip. Republicans do nothing about it because the COC enjoys the cheap labor, and deceive themselves that “migrants’ family values will dram them to our party,” despite persistent voting patterns than demonstrate the opposite.
Especially with the Biden administration preparing to hand out $450,000 to every illegal immigrant who may have been separated from their families after entering the country illegally.
I would call it neo-communist rather than a dictatorship. We are looking at a hybrid of European style welfare-state with Chinese style party-corporate state. The fix is to bring back federalism and limit the national government to things that cannot be done by the states. I assure you that the states can do all the welfare programs that Lefties like.
Dictatorship is the right term, as is Dictatorial. Dictator itself is about a single person, the other terms are about the manner, not the identity.
I just looked these up in my AmH.
“Virginia and New Jersey voters can send a powerful message to this administration by getting to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots for Republican candidates Glenn Youngkin and Jack Ciattarelli. That would be a good start toward the restoration of sanity in the country.”
And when, not if, the Democrats steal these or the next elections, what then? When conservative voices are silenced on social media, when the “press” is an active co-conspirator, when the courts dismiss election-related suits without ever hearing the evidence, then what?
The Virginia election is an excellent opportunity to capitalize on what little traction we have, and establish a beachhead to claw our way back into relevance. If we win, great. If they steal it, that’s grist for the mill — which we can put to good effect. If we just plain lose, well that’s a data point too.
Hahaha! He is good, even on an old video. I see him a lot on Tucker Carlson and I usually agree with him. … I was struck by his comment that we’re closer to a totalitarian country than a democracy though, because I’d never really thought about that before. And if that we’re true in 2015, how much more would it be true today? … Paint was everywhere! 😱
We may have one more chance to vote against totalitarianism, assuming we’re not already there. If we’re already there, the next election will be stolen, and it may be too late to reverse. Southern Democrats pulled out of the nation leading to the civil war, but the reasons were mostly undemocratic and racist. Now that the US government is run by racist totalitarians a pull out would be an effort to preserve the constitution. If the Chinese are not already in control we might be able to play a longer game, but if they are already managing Biden, we won’t. Can we just hope that maybe the Chinese don’t really control Biden, or that the election won’t be rigged and stolen? Or do we have to plan accordingly, shut the border down to illegals, preserve free states ability to pull out, and defeat Democrat governors in states like North Carolina, where the governor is a Democrat, but the population not?