Woke Totalitarianism Wins A Big One

The American Conservative ^ | 5/5/20 | Rod Dreher

[OddLane]

Some commenters on this blog think I’m way out of line saying that the totalitarian threat in the US comes much more from the left than the right. Didn’t I see the men with rifles in the Michigan statehouse? (Yes, I did — and I criticized them.)

Those men, however out of line they were, are nothing compared with the power of liberals in academia and media to change the narrative of American history. This is what totalitarianism does. It not only tries to control your actions — that’s what authoritarianism is — but it tries to control the way you think. It does so by demolishing established cultural memory, seeking to replace it with new, ideologized ones — and demonizing anyone who disagrees with the official story, however falsified it is.

Here’s an important example. In 2019, The New York Times, the world’s most influential newspaper, launched “The 1619 Project,” a massive attempt to “reframe” (the Times’s word) American history by displacing the 1776 Declaration of Independence as the traditional founding of the United States, replacing it with the year the first African slaves arrived in North America...

[RedStateRocker]

There have always been plenty of authoritarians of every political persuasion.

[Spaceman61]

Am I the only one who fully understands that citizens with firearms in a government building is the exact antithesis of totalitarianism?

[OddLane]

Nope.