8 Ways to Recognize If You're Living in a New-style Totalitarian Regime...

Ask someone to describe a “totalitarian regime” and naturally they’ll tell you about North Korea, Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Indeed, these are the most brutal and obvious of the traditional totalitarian states, with their gulags and prisons.

In the past 18 months, however, a new form of totalitarian rule has emerged, and this one is more insidious and dangerous because it’s not so obvious at first. The new version of totalitarian rule doesn’t have death camps and gas chambers, and other means of overt physical repression. In fact, it has the outward features of a prosperous and democratic society. But underneath that thin facade it includes much of the manipulation, brutality and destructive force of the old-style totalitarian regimes.

Last year, almost overnight, ostensibly to fight a virus, countries such as Australia, Italy and New Zealand eagerly embraced the new form of totalitarian rule. Meanwhile, the situation is a bit more complex in the U.S., where many individual states, primarily those ruled by Joe Biden’s Democratic Party, have also embraced this totalitarian model. Among these are states such as Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California.

Yes, totalitarian rule is possible in advanced and prosperous nations. We shouldn’t be so arrogant and smug as to think it’s not. Yes, I know. Many Americans and Europeans don’t want to hear this, and will react emotionally with a knee-jerk dismissal of this new reality. But facts are facts. And unless we act soon, the new totalitarianism will remain for the next half century and longer.

So, what are the fundamental features of this new totalitarian regime in the prosperous and previously free and democratic countries? Here are eight main features, though the list can certainly be extended.

1) You do not own and/or control your body. The State does. Under the guise of “public health” and “saving lives”, the State has ultimate control over your body: For example, the State coerces you to stay home, forbids you to go outside, forbids you to breath fresh air (forced masking), as well as coerces you to take pharmaceutical treatments and to be a guinea pig in medical experiments. Neither scientific fact nor human rights can stop the government.

2) Censorship: Major media and Big Tech are loyal to the ruling class. In the West we consistently see that 95% of major media and Big Tech support the ruling elite on critical matters, such as Covid-19, experimental vaccines and anything related to Big Pharma. On these critical health issues, the media and Big Tech faithfully follow the State’s lead, for example, canceling and censoring dissenting experts, or putting a lid on testimonies by victims of vaccine injuries. Even worse, the media and Big Tech deplatform and demonize those who speak out, ridiculing them as “conspiracy theorists”, which is a Soviet-style attempt to discredit critical and thinking people.

3) Debate and independent research are highly discouraged. This is something more subtle than overt censorship. If you constantly hear that “the Science is settled” and “trust the experts”, then be alarmed. Something very wrong is taking place when there is an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in society. The health of a nation is measured by the extent to which free and open debate is allowed. Once fear sets in, society becomes totalitarian. Threats and intimidation are attacks on the essence of what it means to be human - the right to think freely.

4) Fear of speaking one’s mind among family and friends. This is perhaps the most vile characteristic feature of the new totalitarian regime. It’s one thing to take control of the media and public intellectual discourse, but once the fear and intimidation trickles down into our own homes and among our close circles of family and friends, then clearly we are dealing with a totalitarian regime of the most evil magnitude.

5) Taking an unpopular position leads to punishment. The next logical stage after the above-mentioned is that speaking or thinking independently leads to punishment. Do you feel safe in expressing you opinion on an important issue, especially when your opinion goes against the State and what the media says? If you worry about losing your job or being denied educational opportunities, and if those threats are real and possible, then make no mistake, you are living in a totalitarian regime.

6) No social structure is capable of resisting the State. The lockdowns of spring 2020 made clear that no one could challenge the State. If lockdown had happened 20 years earlier, businesses and churches would have risen up after just 3 weeks. In fact, in March 2020, I was certain the lockdown would be met with mass resistance. So, what happened to that fighting American spirit? In the past 20 years, the State wormed its way into every corner of society. At any moment, the State can cite any one of thousands of obscure laws on the books and shut down any business or church. And just try fighting back. It’s pointless. The legal fees to sue the government will lead to financial ruin, the media will be against you, and you’ll fail.

7) Incessant fear-mongering and hysteria. With the help of the media, the ruling party whips up hysteria over some sort of “existential” threat, real and imagined, but mostly imagined or greatly exaggerated. This can be a foreign threat, such as the “Russians”. Or even better yet, a threat that’s invisible and difficult to comprehend, such as a pathogen. The ruling elite, thanks to the media, incessantly beats the drums of war, with the threat spoken about as if it’s a matter of the nation’s survival. Fear paralyzes people, ruins their sense of reason and makes them more willing to obey their rulers. And, as Orwell wrote, the war is not meant to be won; it’s meant to be endless.

8) Elections are marred by corruption. Just look what happened in the U.S. in the presidential elections November 2020, where vote counting in key swing states mysteriously stopped at midnight, only to resume hours later and give Joe Biden victory. Or what about the recent elections in Canada and California, where opposition figures tried to defeat widely detested rulers, but lost. The party with 95% of major media under its control, (in the U.S., it’s the Democratic Party), doesn't have to fear serious journalistic investigations or calls for a recount. Without a powerful national media platform to keep the ruling elite in check, no opposition movement has a chance to counter pro-regime media, which will always insist that the elections were the “fairest” in history.

So, if you live in a country characterized by these eight features, then be certain, sadly, you are living in a new-style totalitarian regime. And this pretty much characterizes most of Europe and North America today.

Let’s end this discussion on a note of hope, however. All totalitarian regimes eventually crumble and collapse. They are unviable precisely because they’re built on lies and violence. Sure, we in the opposition don’t have an army, we won’t take up arms, and the cavalry isn’t coming to save us.

But we have far greater and more powerful weapons than the regime can ever imagine. We have Truth on our side, as well as the innate yearning for Freedom. While the regime controls Big Tech’s search engines, as AI tweaks the results people see, Truth is so much more than printed or digitally-stored information.

I’ve long noticed that one of the greatest features of the human spirit is the God-given ability inside each of us to sense and recognize Truth and Justice, something which no fury of violence and mendacity can ever overcome. And that’s why they’re afraid. Make no mistake, the totalitarians fear us more than we realize…