Seven Quotes to Lay Out a Totalitarian America

From American Thinker.com (Nov. 29):

How might a Biden administration lead us to a totalitarian state?  What parallels may exist with previous pathways that lead to totalitarianism?  These seven quotes could provide some insights.

1. "The press is our chief ideological weapon."

—Nikita Khrushchev

The lion's share of the press seems to disparage Republicans or dismiss their arguments as baseless while praising Democrats.  These people bury Democrat misdeeds (Clinton emails, Hunter Biden, etc.) while advancing critical narratives against Republicans (Russian collusion, questionable impeachment, etc.) without diligence or evidence.  Why did the mainstream press seem to bury Republican legal challenges regarding the 2020 election, calling them false on day one, before evidence was produced and analyzed?  A press that regularly sides with only one point of view and takes no accountability begins to resemble Khrushchev's ideological weapon.  A Biden presidency could cement a state-controlled media establishment that fulfills Khrushchev's vision.

2. "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

—Benjamin Franklin

Additionally, there is a notion of censorship not only by the historical press, but within all other communications 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 Joe?  Meanwhile, the president was subject to an intense three-year investigation regarding collusion with Russia to win an election that resulted in no collusion being discovered.  What would an aggressive three-year investigation of Hunter Biden's emails produce?  In a society with freeness of speech, we would know.  With the direction we are headed in now with social media and other censorship, we might not know.

…………….

3. "Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count."

—Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza

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?  Elections happen around the world, and there are those in 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. [read more]

So, true. The other quotes:

1. "The implementation of a multi-party governing system offers people an avenue for giving constructive criticism to the government.  This prevents leaders from becoming dictatorial and repressive."
        —Sharon Rondeau
2. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
       —George Orwell
3. "As for civil liberties, anyone who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city."
      —Gore Vidal
4. "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