In response to another poster who asked about the authoritarianism that I’m concerned about, here are some of the disturbing trends that I’ve seen.
Who are the tyrants?
Ask yourself:
-Who is censoring what you can read, write, speak, and hear?
-Who wants to limit what the press can write about?
-Who is demanding that you think only certain thoughts — threatening you with physical violence, the loss of a job, or social ostracism if you venture out of their narrow scope of “acceptable” beliefs?
-Who wants to control where you can go, with whom you can go, when you can go, and under what conditions you can go?
-Who wants to take away your ability to worship when, where, and with whom you want to worship?
-Who wants to make sure that you don’t have the ability to defend yourself against a tyrannical government?
-Who wants to impose a technocratic surveillance state, where everything you do or say or read or write or buy is monitored and recorded?
-Who demands that you take a knee, or prostrate yourself at their feet?
-Who demands that you raise a fist for their cause, like a closed-fisted Nazi salute, or risk bodily or other harm if you refuse?
-Who believes that violence is an acceptable means of forcing decent, law-abiding people to obey their commands?
-Ask yourself who wants to have the power to shut down your business and control your ability to provide for yourself and your family. Who advocates for policies and movements that put small businesses out of business, once again centralizing power and forcing people to transact only with a handful of large companies who work hand-in-hand with these authoritarian rulers?
-Who wants to concentrate all of the world’s wealth and power into the fewest possible hands under a one-world government that will mandate where you can live, what you can eat, how much energy you can use, and how much water you can use to bathe and drink? https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/
-Who wants to force people out of their cars and limit their ability to freely transport themselves when and where they want (FTR, I like mass transit, but not if it’s the only option available)?
-Who attacks people who practice self-defense, instead of punishing the criminals who attack them? -Who encourages people to snitch on their friends and neighbors if they don’t comply with authoritarian orders?
-Who pushes for national or global control vs. local control (centralized power is the hallmark of authoritarianism)?
-Who advocates for authoritarian lockdowns and universal mandates vs. education, decentralized policies, and freedom?
-Who encourages violent mobs to confront people in their homes, threatening not only their target, but their target’s family and neighbors as well?
– October 2019 tabletop exercise where they discuss a coronavirus pandemic and how they will need to control the internet and communications to prevent “disinformation” and “propaganda.”
