I Fear America is Slipping into Totalitarianism
By: Joe Duncan
Tags: Society, United States, Election 2020, Politics, Donald Trump

Politics

I Fear America is Slipping into Totalitarianism

What Can We Do to Stop It?

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I’m not here to berate anyone, to belittle anyone, or to judge anyone, but I’m scared to death. It feels like we’re inches away from totalitarian rule and it may even be already too late. I know a lot of you are sad, I know a lot of you are skeptical, I know a lot of you are hurting, but please consider helping us get this President out of office.

We need you. We need your family. We need your friends. We need to unite together and defend the Republic we have, no matter how flawed, no matter how many times she’s let you down because I can assure you that the alternative is unthinkable.

Trust me, no matter how bad life may seem to some of you now, there’s just no possible way that it’ll be better living under a Trump dictatorship. Don’t you agree? And that’s not an exaggeration, either, that’s where we’re heading right now if we don’t overwhelmingly reject this guy and vote him out. We’ll need to send the clearest signal in a presidential election that this nation has ever sent to make sure that we stand a chance to do just that.

We cannot wait for someone else to save us. We must speak up while we still can. I don’t want to resort to my hopes that lie with the US Military and the prayer that they don’t side with a draft-dodger over the United States Constitution. I don’t want to live under a dictatorship. People like you and me, thinkers, writers, readers, actors, musicians, people who don’t fall in line — we’re usually the first to go whenever that happens in other places.

Freethinkers can’t be tolerated under totalitarian states…freethinkers endanger power in a way that’s incongruous with power and they must be disposed of.

This could be the end of virtually everything you’ve ever known and loved. He didn’t bat an eye at locking up kids to prove a point and as a power move, he’s gutting the post office to deprive us of the right to vote, he’s asked foreign countries to interfere in our elections. Even if you’re a total anarchist, there’s simply no way you can get behind this type of dictatorial takeover of whatever sort. But the real question isn’t whether you’d back it, it’s whether or not you’ll unite and take action to stop it in the face of it.

Trump is defunding the post office to admittedly slow or halt mail-in-voting, he’s floating ideas like canceling or postponing elections, he has federal troops in the streets locking people in unmarked vans, he tried to keep his former fixer locked in prison just to keep him from releasing a book that makes him look bad. You don’t need to burn the books if you can’t prevent them from ever being released. This list goes on ad infinitum…

These are all of the hallmarks of totalitarian rulers. He doesn’t just tick a few boxes, he ticks them all and he ticks them all the time…

Think it won’t affect you?

I want you to envision something for me, we’ll conduct a little thought experiment…what will our systems look like under the shock and stress of such a transition from a Republic to something more sinister?

It only took the threat of a pandemic, before the virus had truly reached our shores to do the damage it did because of a complete lack of care or federal response from this president everything was gone. Toilet paper was nowhere to be found, cleaning products gone, food shelves emptied. Imagine what’ll happen if there’s real turmoil and the supply lines are stretched because workers who are already spread thin are pulled from their jobs and jailed. What happens when he has whatever resources he wants to snatch immigrants from their day jobs and imprison them at will. Or perhaps when he takes the reigns fully, anyone who badmouths his rule.

How long will it be before the shelves run dry, the deliveries stop (they’re already stopping to suppress the vote), and the things you know and love are gone? Imagine looking back from this time next year and knowing you could’ve stopped the whole thing from happening, but you didn’t take action and slowly watched as everything you were comfortable with vanished.

I’ll spare you the exaggerated references to Hitler that are so played out by now — this is serious business, not hyperbole. But Trump very much wants to become an American dictator of his own sort. We’re inches away from teetering into a total takeover and I’m concerned, nay, I fear for all of us.

I’m not telling you what to do, but I am asking if you’d give me the courtesy to ask yourself if that’s what you want, if that’s the future you want, if you really think it couldn’t come here, and if you’ll consider, no matter who you are and what your political leanings, recognizing our proximity to slipping into totalitarian despotism and will commit to fighting back with the power of a vote.

This isn’t a joke or a game. This is reality.

Republics fall, societies come and go, they morph, they change…people since the beginning of civilization have fallen asleep under one kind of structure and woken up to something far more sinister.

Please help us get Donald Trump out of The Oval Office. If we don’t, this act of speaking out alone may be the thing that gets me imprisoned — or worse.

Vote.