ASSIGNMENT#11 INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM

     The increasing power of the state and the declining power of institutions intended to control it has been in the making for some time. The party system is notorious example. The Republicans have emerged as a unique phenomenon in American history of a fervently doctrinal party, zealous, ruthless, antidemocratic and boasting a near majority. As Republicans have become more ideologically intolerant, the democrats have shrugged off the liberal label and their critical reform-minded constituencies to embrace centrism and footnote the end of ideology. In ceasing to be a genuine opposition party the democrats have smoothed the road to power of a party home.  Bear in mind that a ruthless, ideologically driven party with a mass base was a crucial element in all of the twentieth-century regimes seeking total power.

     No doubt these remarks will be dismissed by some as alarmist,but I want to go further and name the emergent political system “Inverted Totalitarianism.” By inverted I mean that while the current system and its operatives share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive expansionism,their methods and action seem upside down. For example, in Weimar Germany, before the Nazis took power, the “streets” were dominated by totalitarian-oriented gangs of toughs, and whatever there was of democracy was confined to the government. In the United States, however, it is the streets where democracy is most alive-while the real danger lies with an increasingly unbridled government.

    My understanding about this passages is that Inverted Totalitarianism is the representation form of the United States government. Also, exert control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian and an autocratic. Basically, this is only a part of the political power.

   I chose this passages about Inverted Totalitarianism because this is the clear vision of how United State is governed. The government controls the country which means they make us follow the law. For example, paying taxes.