yes, and totalitarian governments are the norm.
The United States and the western democracies of the last couple hundred years are the very rare exceptions to tyranny.
That’s why the struggle to defeat the progressives is so important. They are attempting to turn the clock back to the 99% norm of history…which will be very good for them, and very bad for the people.
Some ask why they would want to undo the absolutely clear and overwhelming lifestyle improvements of the post American Revolutionary period. The answer to that is easy. If they succeed, THEIR lifestyles will be no less, and their power will be far greater, which virtually insures their descendents will remain in power for centuries (or at least, will remain in the tiny percentage of humanity that has any chance at all to be in power). It’s the lifestyles for the other 99.9% that will revert to serfdom and slavery. Many of the progressives may not believe that, but history proves that is what always happens with even the best intentioned oligarchies. And frankly, many progressives / marxists / communists have no intention whatsoever of being benevolent at all. The personality type that is attracted to liberalism, et al, is the authoritarian type.
