Is the United states becoming a totalitarian state?
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Did you get goverment permission to ask this question?\n\nAnd remember they know where you are..........
1048087
If the common people got together everywhere... talked politics... totalitarianism would not take place here in USA.   Shopping malls took people away from neighborhood shopping areas where people got to know each other talked politics... cars, freeways, took people away from family, friends.. "individualized" people... make it easy for dictators like Bush to dominate them... so on and so on,\n\nRICHARD
461332
No, America is no longer based on its founding priciples.  It has become a empire bent on world domination, and becoming a military state.  See Governmentnews.org and antipasministries.com to see what America has really become.  If you dont live here, Great.  If you live here, GET OUT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!!
1145522
In an Article entitled “Why it's over for America” the respected speaker provided by your link wrote:\n An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the 'failed state'. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming. In an exclusive extract from his devastating new book, America's leading thinker explains how his country lost its way. \n The selection of issues that should rank high on the agenda of concern for human welfare and rights is, naturally, a subjective matter. But there are a few choices that seem unavoidable, because they bear so directly on the prospects for decent survival. Among them are at least these three: nuclear war, environmental disaster, and the fact that the government of the world's leading power is acting in ways that increase the likelihood of these catastrophes. It is important to stress the government, because the population, not surprisingly, does not agree. \n That brings up a fourth issue that should deeply concern Americans, and the world: the sharp divide between public opinion and public policy, one of the reasons for the fear, which cannot casually be put aside, that, as Gar Alperowitz puts it in America Beyond Capitalism, "the American 'system' as a whole is in real trouble - that it is heading in a direction that spells the end of its historic values [of] equality, liberty, and meaningful democracy".\n The "system" is coming to have some of the features of failed states, to adopt a currently fashionable notion that is conventionally applied to states regarded as potential threats to our security (like Iraq) or as needing our intervention to rescue the population from severe internal threats (like Haiti). Though the concept is recognised to be, according to the journal Foreign Affairs, "frustratingly imprecise", some of the primary characteristics of failed states can be identified. One is their inability or unwillingness to protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction. Another is their tendency to regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and hence free to carry out aggression and violence. And if they have democratic forms, they suffer from a serious "democratic deficit" that deprives their formal democratic institutions of real substance.\n Among the hardest tasks that anyone can undertake, and one of the most important, is to look honestly in the mirror. If we allow ourselves to do so, we should have little difficulty in finding the characteristics of "failed states" right at home. \n\nhttp://www.google.com/custom?q=Noam+Chomsky&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-5174720432180771&cof=FORID:1%3BGL:1%3BBGC:FFFFFF%3BT:%23000000%3BLC:%230000ff%3BVLC:%23663399%3BALC:%230000ff%3BGALT:%23008000%3BGFNT:%230000ff%3BGIMP:%230000ff%3BDIV:%23336699%3BLBGC:336699%3BAH:center%3B&domains=informationclearinghouse.info&sitesearch=informationclearinghouse.info&start=10&sa=N
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Hopefully at that point some US states will break away.  If not, i would suggest a less socialist country.  Maybe one with very few people.  The more people there are, the more government becomes oppressive and paternalistic.  New Zealand might be a good option.  But they may take immigration seriously.  And then we're screwed.
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It seems that the people of the USA have gone Democrat: gone, as you and I will agree, Commie.\n\nProbably California and New York and all those other states AND the US House of Representatives have had the last free elections they ever will. I can imagine gerrymandering resulting in 99.999% votes for the incumbents forever. Sort of like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, or those Commies in USSR days.\n\nLifestyles for sure: forced abortion, equal time in schools and churches for gay indoctrination; Muslim Halal food in the schools; laws that protect terrorists and victimize their victims. 90% tax rates and TAXES ON TAXES! And that's not all: forced marriages with a spouse from another culture ("to equalize opportunity and end race discrimination"). And forced use of languages besides English. Except in Puerto Rico, where they will mandate Esperanto.\n\nI'd get out of New York or California ASAP and move somewhere congenial: to Kansas or Utah or one of those states where it's still legal to have guns. And to use them when threatened.
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Its not that the US is nessasarily becoming a thrid world nation its that certain aspects of our society are being broken down such as the middle class and public education funding from the state and federal governments. However other things have become more secure and efficient in the Private Sector and our govenment is making it so our economy has less control which is common in Tiger Countries
1051307
We were initially founded as a republic, not even a democracy. But we are becoming more socialist and even communist every day.
471121
Americans. A dangerous precedent has been set by the recent criminal republicans that question any form of dissent and if you are brave enough to disagree with their ideology, you are labeled as anti-American, or subversive. This hysterical reaction starts with Bush and his Goons and trickles down to the local levels of government. Of course this is more pervasive in certain areas of the country, i.e. bible belt. Their will be a lot of healing needed with our next president as this one has caused our country serious damage with his flawed ideology. The deprogramming of America begins in 2008.
631993
I don't think the United States has become a bunch of loosers. I just believe that our politicians have been too busy wiggling around the problem for too long, and now it has caught up with them and they don't know what to. One thing for sure, they won't turn to the citizens for answers. They will continue to wriggle around until the problem is completely uncontrolable, then the United States will no longer exist as a soverign nation, and it will become the slum of the world. Crime and drugs will become the predominant economy. Morals will deteriorate, boys will become girls, girls will become power mongers. wars will breakout between homo and heterosexuals, babies will be harvested from the wombs of their mothers and be ground up for cattle feed, astronauts will hijack space shuttles in futile attempts to escape their beloved homelands, lunatics will rule over malls and shopping centers, the homeless will reside in former governer digs and mott-the-hoople will adorn the dollar bill.
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No.  It is an outdated and flawed system that is representative of qualities similar to that of the British empire in which our forefathers fought so desperately to get away from.  We are becoming the United Empire of America....it is a very scary time in our history.  I think politics have outgrown the fair representation of Americans.
244362
The Iron Curtain as we knew it is gone.\n\nAnd yes, there still are large differences between North and South in the USA.
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My favorite liberal radio talk show host Randi Rhodes has,to my great surprise,has been talking about how our government is doing the same things that hitler did in the few years before WW2 started.  One thing was how Hitler had created  "databases" on all it's citizens,so they knew who were the jews and where they were,and who were the people most likely to hide them when it came time to round them up.\nPlus much much more.  And there are many concentration camps already set up and staffed.\n     As a truckdriver,I have noticed alot of prisons set up right next to the interstate.  And one prison in oklahoma on US Hwy 69,doesn't even say prison.\nThe biggest camp that I've heard about is near Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Yes!  It is high time and overdue.\n\n"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."\nFrank Zappa, musician and cultural iconoclast\n\n\nRefer to http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/News
901306
I think we should change everything, all the time, whenever we get tired of anything at all.  How about questioning the incredible inefficiency of our style of government?  That would be a good question and someday soon when this country is a bit closer to totalitarianism I believe I will ask it.
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Very.\n\nThe US has gotten way too conservative since 9/11. We were attacked by terrorists, that doesn't mean its time to freak out and turn the US into a Christian version of the Taliban.\n\nWaaay too uptight. \n\nThe pendulum will swing back at some point though. We won't put up with this ultra-conservative nonsense forever.
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OK America Now are we going to Awake the sleeping Giant...Look I read about this in the People Magz. the problem is this is a different state that this is talking about..Its called Control..We are going to be the dumb ones if we don't start standing up...educating ourselfs and getting things stright...If we don't start to shape up this country..we are going to leave a big mess for our kids to have to clean up, provided they care at that point.. Vist my blog there are plenty of things going on....