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Op-Ed: The New Totalitarians Are Using a Fraudulent Threat to Subjugate Citizens

“No one must … underrate the power and efficiency of a totalitarian state.”

On Oct. 16, 1938, Winston Churchill, a member of Parliament and an opponent of the policy of appeasement concerning the aggression of Nazi Germany in Czechoslovakia, made the above statement in a radio broadcast from England directly to the American people.

He was warning the U.S. and the world about the impending dangers of the rise of Nazi Germany in Europe and Hitler’s totalitarian regime.

In September 2020, the newly elected governor of California, Gavin Newsom, issued an executive order banning the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. In August, California’s Air Resources Board enacted rules requiring that 35 percent of new vehicles be electric- or hydrogen-powered by 2026 and outlawed the sale of fossil fuel-powered combustion engines in California by 2035.

There are several ways one can subjugate a people.

The traditional means has been the use of military force. However, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated in Ukraine, military action is messy. Innocent people are killed and public opinion, both domestic and international, can often arise in opposition to the use of force on innocents.

Then there is the use of economic power to subjugate a people, such as the sanctions that the U.S. and the West have attempted to use against rogue nations such as IranNorth Korea and now Russia. Interestingly, Russia responded with its own brand of economic warfare, cutting off the vital supply of natural gas to Europe just as winter approached. Any politician in Europe who did not anticipate that response was just as naïve as Neville Chamberlain regarding the appeasement strategy toward Hitler.

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