Your list looks more like things done once they are in power. It’s a little harder and more subtle before that happens.
“How can you tell if a man is dying? Not actually dead yet but in the process of dying?”
“Oh, it’s easy, you just see the heart has stopped and there’s no brain activity!”
Hmmm… seems kind of after the fact diagnoses to me.
(Btw, you have a tendency to quote the ENTIRE message. Is that really necessary?)
No, conservatives don’t bring up tradeoffs either. They talk about tax cuts but never talk about what they’ll cut to achieve them.
Ah, so we are in fact already under the control of a totalitarian state.
I didn’t see a memo, but I’m not sure I needed to know this anyway.
Eyes forward, Jimmy. Just keep marching or you know what’ll happen.
Ok, let me refrase it in medical language
Increased Government intervention in the economy has been observed in lots of subjects who DID not develop totalitarian syndrome, see France, USA (New Deal), UK, Sweden, etc.
Thus Increased Government intervention in the economy is not a symptom of impending totalitarism.
Symptoms of impending Totalitarian syndrome are those previously mentioned, once a country starts to have some of those symptoms it frequently develops the others soon, this off course has exceptions and is not a sure fire sign.
Current research seems to indicate that the surer sign of impending Totalitarian Syndrome is the coming to power of a totalitarian political party usually helped by devastating economic conditions.
Nope, just laziness.
Ok, you’ve convinced me. Let’s go get some free health care and call it a day.
Why is this hijack continuing when the guy who originally posted the hijack admitted that it was a totally idiotic hijack?
-Joe
Happy to be of service, let me know when you need convincing in any other matter 
No, I don’t know. I don’t even want to know.