Reid: President DeSantis Would Need a ‘Morality Police’ to Squash Wokeism, That’s Also Called ‘Totalitarianism’

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REID: “So I guess DeSantis, the DeSantis administration, would move to replace the boards of every one of the approximately 6,000 public universities in this country that he thinks are too woke, like he did to New College in Florida. He’s going to need some de facto morality police to monitor what you read and ban books in America’s 90,000 odd public schools. President DeSantis would ban artistic freedom of speech, of course, and wield the federal government like a sledgehammer against businesses who do anything that displeases him and other members of the far right. A national six-week abortion ban, make America Florida, am I right? You want to control your body anymore, ladies? Nah. Chairman — sorry, President DeSantis is going to do that. And there’s a model for what this little dictator in the making wants to do. Just look at China, Cuba, North Korea, Afghanistan, or Iran where the government censors the media or force-feeds a strict conservative religious ideology to children in schools, deploys morality police to make sure you’re wearing what they want, learning what they want, doing what they want. That model also happens to have a name, and it’s called totalitarianism, the political concept that the citizen should totally be subject to an absolute state authority. DeSantis’ proposal would also require a massive multi-trillion dollar federal investment in a humongous bureaucracy to control and squash unwanted wokeness. Let me guess, he'll get Mexico to pay for it? Freedom from big government used to be a pretty basic Republican principle, but I guess that went out the window along with respect for democracy. That hasn’t stopped other states from adopting the ideas of DeSantis-stan, but that doesn't make it a winning strategy."