:+: Signs That You're Living in an Authoritarian State :+:
:+: Could This Become the New America? :+:
🚨 Important update: America is now essentially an oligarchy (ruled by the richest) with an authoritarian leadership!
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🇺🇸😰 Is This Really The New America?
Is this really America? Or is it the new America, under new management?
Although many will try to deny this, the proof is easy to spot, especially as the leadership engages in many of the very same tactics authoritarians in the past have used!
💡 Tip: When people insult you, threaten you or attack you instead of trying to reason with you, it's because they're 😱scared😱 of the threat that you represent to their false reality and the fact that they can't think of any way to prove you wrong, so, they're left with the tactics of a 🧌grade school bully or a knuckle-dragging primate!🧌
If they have to resort to threats or violence, it's their very last resort as they have nothing else to use against you.🪫 Although it's 🫂small comfort if you're hurt🫂, you at least know that with their words or actions, they're acknowledging you're right or, at the very least, they're too stupid to use logic and they're proving it to you as well as to anyone who witnesses it! Well, that, and they're too weak to even control themselves!
⁉️ What is authoritarianism?
⁉️ While I can tell you how to 💡recognise💡 the signs of authoritarianism, it won't do you much good unless you know what authoritarianism is in the first place.🤔
💡 Authoritarianism is one of the absolute 😡worst😡 forms of government, especially for the people! The authoritarian state frequently sees its citizens as little more than sheep to be used, made easier by keeping them as ignorant as possible, as people who aren't aware of the real truth* are far easier to control and maintain strict obedience to the dictator in power!
*As opposed to what the authoritarian leader claims is the truth, but, what's coming out of his mouth hole is similar as to what comes out of . . . his other hole!💩
⚠️ As the real truth is a threat to authoritarians, 🔇censorship🔇, 📚book banning📚, making protests illegal and punishable by imprisonment, torture and possibly execution (or an arranged 'accident' or having guards that 'neglected' to give a prisoner food or even water) are undeniably some of the more infamous tactics of tyrants!
Something to think about . . . That German fellow with the little moustache was able to set up his dictatorship in less than six months. Imagine, if you will, how quickly someone similar to him could do the same with the currently available technology, the lack of a conscience and hand-picked people based on their loyalty in charge of various agencies, assigned as judges in the highest courts, and in control of the most popular social networking apps could do today! Would they gradually take over everything so the effect is similar to a frog in a cook-pot or immediately after taking power begin issuing official decrees, executive orders or what-have-you with very little to fear from the population they can manipulate, control and monitor? Time will tell. But, I'm hoping people would never be gullible enough to elect such a person in the first place, as their ability to discern the truth from a would-be dictator's lies would probably be the only real safeguard against such a thing.
🔎 Some of the signs that you're living in an authoritarian state are when your leader displays some or all of the following:
➢ Wanting total and absolute control over everything.
➢ Unwillingness to share power, or, at best, letting others think they have some authority, while maintaining their ability to . . . 'remove' them whenever they want.
➢ Instils fear of another group of people into their citizens. Makes up false claims of imminent danger to the people from that group (or multiple groups) who they insist are dangerous, despite any proof to justify their claims. Then, claims that they are the only one who can protect them from this (imagined) threat and, in time, insists that the citizenry give up more and more of their essential liberty, freedom and privacy to combat it. In a way, it's similar to a disease masquerading as a cure. And, once you're infected with it, you might never get better!
➢ Is a cult-like figure, oozing with confidence (even when it's obvious they're wrong to anyone with more than a few working brain cells), that creates a 'cult of personality', complete with an absolutely fake persona that makes you want to like them, trying to charm people when the underlying and true self beneath is a calculating monster, intent on getting what they want no matter what even when it means hurting or killing others to achieve their objectives.
➢ Wants to control all forms of communications (or at least those used by the majority of people) from newspapers, radio stations, commercial news outlets, social networking services and social media platforms either directly or indirectly through those loyal to him or those he can threaten into subservience.
➢ Has a ministry of propaganda, even if those in it don't realise that they're it. The easiest (and also the sneakiest) way they can create this is by allowing only those who publish what they want published into a meeting. Those who criticise him in such a meeting or through their regular press job or in some other forum are never allowed to return. This way, the tyrant ends up with a group that'll publish what he wants the public to be told.
➢ With the last two complete, it becomes next to impossible for his citizenry to discover the truth for themselves, especially if the country is an endemic surveillance society with every transaction, every phone call, every text message monitored as well as the physical movements of the citizens, themselves, via GPS, or even via triangulation as all the cellular phone networks towers keep a rather detailed record. Governments outsource some data collection to corporations and much of the work involved with Internet traffic analysis is done with AI, which can crack encryption with ease, so even doing things like surfing the Web with the TOR Web browser with a VPN after changing your MAC address is not going to guarantee your anonymity. But, setting up fake VPNs is also an option and the number of fake VPN apps is legion. Pirate radio broadcasts? Heh. FM radio (Frequency Modulation radio) is line-of-sight (which is why the FM radio stations of such tall radio towers), so the chances of anyone reaching a large number of people in an authoritarian regime is slim to none and some countries also dictate the transmitting power of neighbouring countries' FM radio stations that can be picked up by their citizens. AM radio (Amplitude Modulation radio) had its pirate radio days, but, how many citizens can listen to AM radio? Although there are ways of building one, I'm fairly certain the amount of trouble I'll get into if I give exact details, as I've already had that . . . 'chat.' But, a smart person could, if they wanted to, research AM radio signal propagation, the ionosphere, nighttime broadcasting, variable resistors, battery powered transmitters (60-cycle hums in AC-powered transmitters are annoying), et cetera, while keeping in mind that some jurisdictions are far more strict than others when it comes to things such as . . . border blasters and the like. Research the laws that might affect you first, before even looking things up, as even known specifics could be a big no-no where you live! If in doubt, don't!!
➢ Keeps souvenirs of his past victories. Some of his souvenirs he shows to people while the most horrific he attempts to keep hidden and shows to a select few or none at all.
➢ Has absolutely zero real empathy for anyone and pretends to care when they want something out of someone or to boost their image in the people's eyes. If he gave an honest opinion of what he felt when was told what he was doing to the people, he would state in all seriousness that he doesn't care as the only thing that matters to him is power, wealth, fame and the worship of his brainwashed sheeple!
➢ Removes any museum exhibits which might cast their country in a bad light, including things they did to indigenous populations or ways people had resisted tyranny, officially-sanctioned slavery or other abuses of power in the past.
➢ Controls what is taught in the 🏫schools🏫 since it's like having an assembly-line factory that produces biological drones🤖, that'll do whatever you tell them to because that's how they've been programmed and if that indoctrination and mind control starts early enough, it's nearly impossible to change it!
➢ Insists on strict adherence to any laws or rules, especially those they create.
➢ Demands loyalty oaths to him, not the country.
➢ Secures obedience through fear, intimidation and bullying, as their maturity level is equal to that of a grade school bully.
➢ Crushes any and all resistance, whether it's in the form of protests, constructive criticism, or even a poll showing that people don't like them or don't agree with them.
➢ Tries to instil fanatical nationalism in his brainwashed sheeple, claiming that he can bring about a new golden age or to make the country as great as it was before.
➢ Encourages violence against those he sees as his enemy or a threat to his power.
➢ Publicly displays his contempt of professionals, experts in their chosen fields, intellectuals, 👩🏫teachers👨🏫, and others who actually know what they're talking about or who are at least more knowledgeable than he is on subjects that he wants his citizens to believe he knows everything about. They're a threat to him as they could shatter the illusion he's attempting to cast on those he sees as dumber and more gullible than himself, which are most of his citizens.
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