Corporate-Elite Totalitarianism: Creeping or Leaping Toward a Totalitarian State?
Some people believe the United States is already a totalitarian state. If that is our reality, it doesn’t mean we can’t regain our status as a republic.
“Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests…. What’s happening in the United States today is a corporate coup of the U.S. government, and anyone who isn’t grieving that must not be looking.” Corporate Totalitarianism, or Not, Opinion by Marianne Williamson
We must look, and look deeper.
We can’t beat back what we don’t understand.
Totalitarian power by definition is considered to be…
“…of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation…”
I’m sure that during the Kennedy presidency, foreign totalitarian regimes were the concern. But what JFK stated then can be used in the fight we must take-on today. To win this battle, our citizenry …
“[It] requires skilled manpower and brainpower to match the power of totalitarian discipline.”
He was discussing education. We must educate people to recognize and resist conformity for the sake of conformity. We need brainpower? Not a problem.
But, whom are we matching wits against? And how powerful is their discipline, their control over us?
That is where my passionate support for public education keeps me digging for answers. I don’t like what I have found.
When the public education system is completely controlled and directed to focus on the Corporate-Elite Totalitarianism: Creeping or Leaping Toward a Totalitarian State? - The Crucial Voice of the PeopleThe Crucial Voice of the People:
