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.
Also
concerning is the silencing of conservative voices across
universities. Janet Mock was banned from speaking at Brown
University. Ben Shapiro was banned from speaking at Cal. State at
L.A. There are others. Upon a Biden presidency with sympathetic voices
from Twitter, Facebook, other social media, universities, and others,
we could find ourselves bearing out Ben Franklin's observation and
overthrow our own liberty by subduing the freeness of speech even beyond
Khrushchev's historical press.
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.
4. "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
For
a democracy, even our republic, to succeed requires at least two
"legitimate" political parties. For a party to be "legitimate," it
needs to be recognized as being able to govern once elected. Our
nation's two predominant parties have had mutual legitimacy — that is,
up until Donald Trump and the Republicans won the 2016 election. The
Democrats never recognized the Republican victory's legitimacy. They
formed a "resistance" and attempted to take down the president with a
false Russian collusion narrative, a low-bar impeachment process, and on
and on. With a Biden presidency, could this resistance expand to
writing off the Republican Party as an illegitimate organization that
will need to be eliminated, placing us squarely in totalitarianism's
crosshairs?
5. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
—George Orwell
The
founding of our country — "the past" — is under direct assault from the
"woke" initiative. Wokeness, being a Marxist concept, is trying to
tell us that our nation's founding is based on slavery — a false
narrative. Why false? Slavery was an accepted, legal process at the
time of our country's founding, and many of our founders had slaves
along with others across the world. But slavery contradicts the
founding principles these great men advanced. The Declaration of
Independence and Constitution held the principles of freedom and
equality that contributed to the abolition of slavery, not slavery's
justification. Should Biden gain the presidency, being Orwell's "the
present," this woke notion and the "1619 Project" could be expanded to
redefine "the past" and orient "the future" education narrative that
might have our Declaration of Independence and Constitution labeled ill
founded and discarded, along with our democratic republic, based on a
false historical slavery narrative, moving us toward a totalitarian
state.
6. "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
We
have all seen the recent effort to delegitimize the country's police as
overreaching, racist entities — yet another false narrative. Among the
800,000 armed policemen in this country, there have been incidents of
criminal behavior that need to be addressed. But to characterize
Michael Brown's shooting as a criminal act is another false narrative
(look at the evidence). Yet this incident was leveraged by Black Lives
Matter to accelerate that movement's Marxist agenda to take down and
defund the police. Then we have Marxist Antifa's involvement. With
Biden, what could happen here? Could defunded police be refunded and
re-established and transition from an entity to "protect the people" to
an entity that "protects the state," moving to a "police state"?
7. "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
This
is a quote that defines overall what may be happening. We have lived
through the decades of gradual transition of socialist sentiments and
actions in our country, becoming more socialist every day through the
transition. We have seen universities, K–12 school systems, the media,
large companies, philanthropic organizations, and other entities
transition from idealistic to socialist, largely unnoticed — until
now. Would Biden's administration be a massive socialist revolution
into a totalitarian state? No. But given what has happened already, it
could be the straw that breaks democracy's back.
Our
transformation to a totalitarian state must be resisted. Buckle up and
stand tall. Do not fear Black Lives Matter, Antifa, social media, the
press, your school's curricula, your employer, or any of these forces.
We must heed the words of Andrew Jackson:
But
you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the
people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you
wish to secure the blessing.
As individuals, it is our price to pay to ensure our democratic republic's survival and have its blessing secured.
It is on us.