A totalitarian government can run for a long time before the people are starving in the streets. Hitlers Germany was booming economically going into WWII. A dictator can use the Constitution for TP and decide which rights he’ll give you while the economy still rolls along. Iraq’s economy I believe was good by Middle Eastern standards under Hussein. China avoids mass starvation and a growing middle class under communist control. East Germany trailed West Germany by a wide margin but they weren’t starving to death. A totalitarian government could strip us of our God given rights and freedoms and go for decades without complete economic collapse of the middle and working classes while always blaming the boogeyman for the whoas of the commoners and most sheeple will go right along with it.

Last edited by TheLastLemming76; 03/20/21.