One of the key steps in creating a totalitarian state: attacking, silencing the media.
Could these relentless attacks by the Trump administration on the media be a sign that this government could be heading down a road leading to a totalitarian state?
Perhaps we can draw some conclusions by reviewing history to see what happened in other countries in past decades when its national media came under attack by its highly aggressive, controlling government and was muzzled and silenced.
Here are some of the most notable totalitarian governments of the past; note that several of these countries could still be so classified:
*Soviet Russia under Stalin
*Nazi Germany and Hitler
*Italy under Mussolini
*North Korea under various dictators from the same family
*China under Mao Zedong
All of these countries had governments that evolved into either fascist or totalitarian states. One of the first things that they did when moving down that path was to keep the people from knowing exactly what was going on, so that there was little to no chance that they would rise up and revolt against the formation of this kind of a controlling government.
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