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Saturday, January 8, 2022

Soft Totalitarianism

In his book Live Not By Lies Rod Dreher makes a plausible case that the U.S. is moving toward a kind of soft totalitarianism in which individual freedoms will be sharply curtailed and in which "deviants" will suffer social punishments like loss of jobs and access to medical care, the inability to shop or travel, etc.

Indeed, this is already happening with people being fired from their jobs for holding incorrect political opinions, declining vaccinations and other recalcitrant acts frowned upon by our elites.

Dreher gives a succinct summation of the theme of his very important book in this short video from Prager U. It's worth checking out: