Originally posted by Mountain Man
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now that they have been able to enforce their totalitarian dreams on a suddenly compliant population, they're reluctant to simply relinquish their newly acquired power.
Historically speaking, governments around the world have NOT drifted toward totalitarianism. Instead they have drifted toward becoming more democratic. Learn some basic history. Or look at a graph of the number of democracies around the world over time. The number of democratic countries, and percentage of the world living under well-functioning democracies, have both fairly linearly increased steadily across the last 100-150 years.
There is, as a general rule, no particular reason to be afraid of any tendency to drift toward totalitarianism. Governments gradually accruing for themselves more and more power over time simply does not appear happen as much as the opposite does. People around the world have steadily become more free, not the opposite.
I mean, if extreme measures like forcing people to isolate, wear masks, and stand six-feet apart can tame something as supposedly virulent as the China flu, then imagine what could be done for less contagious illnesses like the common flu, which kills tens of thousands of people a year?
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