Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Why Totalitarianism Doesn’t Require Gulags or Concentration Camps

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Why Totalitarianism Doesn’t Require Gulags or Concentration Camps

"...Americans tend to think of themselves as anti-authoritarian and willing to be independent-minded and to challenge consensus. 

• But even rugged American individualists still want a news source or source of information that they can trust. 
• They still want to believe that public officials who have responsibility for this or that aspect of our lives more or less know what they're doing and are doing a decent job. 

Otherwise, what's the alternative to that? 

• The alternative to that is pretty terrifying—you can't trust anyone, and nobody knows what the heck is going on....