Power stemming from malevolent lies doesn’t last long; people eventually see through the lies. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:
Totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices. It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the government’s false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his free will, then the thoughts in his head, and finally anything he once called his own. It slowly dispossesses each person of his personhood, until the population withers into frail, colorless facsimiles of the bleak, omnipresent State. Without the courage to act, the desire to think, the wisdom to pray, or the conscience to object, human purpose disappears. Society is exsanguinated of its vitality, creativity, spirituality, and mirth — until it slips beneath the water and stops breathing.
This was the story of Lenin’s Soviet Union and the imprisoned nations trapped behind Stalin’s Iron Curtain. It was the story of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Mao’s China, and Pol Pot’s Cambodia. It has been the story of Kim’s North Korea, Castro’s Cuba, Chávez’s Venezuela, and the ayatollahs’ Iran. For over a century, humanity has endured one form of barbarous totalitarianism after the next. It slithers into unsuspecting countries — often hiding behind the mask of democratic elections. It misrepresents itself as just one political party of many before announcing itself as the only party for all. It seeks to eliminate opponents in stages: first it proselytizes, then it intimidates, and finally it murders. With a couple hundred million victims over the last century alone, it is a governing philosophy that specializes in mass executions, dank prison cells, killing fields, and concentration camps. Totalitarianism infiltrates society with lies and builds nothing but the machinery of death.
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Don’t count on any grand awakening.
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The FUSA hungers to be euthanized and it has already got its wish.
When the citizens think that resisting a slave state is asking the state and its employees to reconsider their rules and for recognition of individual rights that the citizens claim, they fail to realize they are giving the state the power to rule their lives and telling the state they will not resist without permission. The state will recognize that the citizens have given up their rights and will submit to any request while begging the state to listen to their requests. When the state backs down from its demands in the face of resistance and reconsiders its actions, those seeking liberty think they have a win and are moving the state toward recognition of the freedom of its citizens. They believe the state realizes it is mistaken in its adventures of enslaving. What has happened is that the state knows that it has met resistance and must reroute its attempts and pretend to be conciliatory while still driving to its ultimate end. Until the state admits that it does not have the right to direct the lives of the people within its borders and stops enslaving, it is not to be trusted. No state has ever proven to be trustworthy of liberty and individual rights. It will always attract the amoral who seek the permission of the enslaved to use violence to achieve its end of being the authority over the lives of those it rules, murdering, eviscerating, plundering, and extorting those who are productive. ~ Chad Chadburn