Authored by Naomi Wolf via The American Institute for Economic Research,
In 2008, I wrote a book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. I warned, based on my study of closing democracies in 20th century history, that America needed to beware of a slide toward totalitarianism.
I warned that would-be tyrants, whether they are on the left or the right, always use a map to close down democracies, and that they always take the same ten steps. Whether it’s “Invoke a Terrifying Internal and External Threat,” “Create a Thug Caste,” “Target the Press,” or the final step, “Suspend the Rule of Law,” these steps are always recognizable; and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At that time, the “global threat” of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms.
The book was widely read and discussed, both at the time of its publication and for the last 12 years. Periodically over the last decade, people would ask me when and if we had reached “Step Ten.”
We – my brave publisher, Chelsea Green, and I — are releasing the first and last chapters of The End of America now, in 2021, for free, and I am calling the sequel to this book, which I am now writing, Step Ten – because as of March of last year, we have indeed, I am so sad to say, arrived at and begun to inhabit Step Ten of the ten steps to fascism.
Though in 2008, I did not explicitly foresee that a medical pandemic would be the vehicle for moving the entire globe into Step Ten, I have at various points warned of the dangers of medical crises as vehicles that tyranny can exploit to justify suppressions of civil rights. Today, a much-hyped medical crisis has taken on the role of being used as a pretext to strip us all of core freedoms, that fears of terrorism did not ultimately achieve.
In 2015, I cautioned that infectious diseases could be used as a justification for ushering in a suppression of liberties, always under the guise of emergency measures. In 2019, a book of mine, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, showed how terrible infectious disease epidemics such as cholera and typhus had been exploited in the 19th century by the British state, in order to crush freedoms and invade people’s privacy; I wrote about how the first anti-vaccination movements arose among British parents in the Victorian period. That book was initially cancelled, and its message of warning has been continually assailed.
But that book too was prescient. In early March of 2020, of course, a global pandemic was announced: Covid-19.
Calling America a democracy is a big part of ending America. There are few now that know it is a republic and understand how a republic functions.
It’s a democracy where people choose other people to vote for them, rather than voting on legislation individually themselves. That’s how a republic functions.
Pure democracy typically devolves quickly to this step before heading on its way to oligarchy and tyranny.
This is a video that EVERYONE needs to see!! This zoom BS means we have no more secrets, as we have seen. Our idiotic “leaders ” use zoom and multiple other companies with sensitive information…we’re screwed! People better wake the hell up fast!
The reminders of mask everywhere is another slap in face to me. How did we get here so fast?
Not just masks.
I just heard an ad on the radio with a woman’s voice, talking about how she and HER WIFE were doing the “right things” like social distancing, wearing masks, going to get the shot when it was their turn, etc.
In a perverse way, you have to admire it -- the multi-axis attack on our culture from every direction, relentlessly, all the time.
Me and others I know would love to hear a viable solution by patriot websites and talkshow folks. Nothing is planned to stop the take down. I Q why many sites are stil up as friends quit reading them like Quayle, Hodges, and others.