>>24524467>Power is way too decentralized in America for it to ever be truly totalitarian in any meaningful way, the founding fathers were incredibly far-sighted in how they planned things outTrue to an EXTENT and, yep, God bless the founding fathers for it. But unfortunately not fully. The modern technological era is what’s going to help ramp us up to this somewhat covert neo-totalitarianism, and in fact already has been, significantly progressing throughout the 20th century, with the CIA becoming a formidable entity after WWII, then entities like the NSA and DHS, empowered even more after 9/11, and then what we have now. It’ll be, and arguably already is, a softer totalitarianism. You can still buy Big Macs and a nice sundae at Carvel’s and the like, we have screens to entertain us nd the like. It’s enough to pacify enough people if they don’t step out the lines.
There can be good local cops, judges, city council members and whoever who don’t want to break the Constitution. This is a plus and can prevent more heavyhanded totalitarianism, at least for some time. But then we have the possibility of a top-down technological surveillance state, pushed on us from above but also in a paradoxical way from the bottom up - consumers agreeing to buy smartphones, tracking devices par excellence, for instance.
>>24524506This, unfortunately.
