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The following will explain how governments, both of the past and the present, presumably the future too, have always attempted to introduce a police state through an array of deceptive tools in order not to enrage the population until it is too late and all the chess pieces are in place for checkmate. This process, once again, is ongoing this very moment as you read this by a group that i call controller-elites. They have developed a playbook in order to introduce an authoritarian police state even within the most stable democracy through the means of distraction, destabilization and finally the take-over.
The most important thing about deception is not to cloak ones intentions. Even with all the secrecy a group of people operates in, there will always be loose ends and information going to the outside world. While in the past news took days and weeks until all of a country was informed by an organic campaign (such as people spreading the word mouth-to-mouth), in this age every piece of information can be shared at an exponential rate via the internet. This makes total information quarantine almost impossible, thus the elites must somehow keep the public from seeing what everyone has right in front of them.
The same way a magician will always use his hands, the limb that normal people use for almost all complex physical manipulation and thus pay the most attention to by nature, while in fact having various other tricks up his sleeves, the elites use the instincts of people against them. Their distractions are hard to look through, since they often represent an imminent threat and cannot simply be ignored. Some of the most important distractions in recent years have been:
Islamic Terror
Communist Riots
Race/Gender Tensions
Global Warming
Russian Hacking
Of cause, it is very hard to put out a full list of those tactics, since the current attempt at a police state is supposed to be a global one-world entity, thus all nations have differing implementations advancing at different speeds. However, all have two goals in common: To distract the public through in-fighting, using civil divide-and-conquer (more info here), and the other one is also the 2nd step.
If a nation has a low crime rate, high prosperity, political awareness, unified ideals, in short: a stable society, it is all but impossible to sell the police state. All of those have to go. In terms of crime rates this could be done very easily: All you have to do is introduce bad laws that increase the amount of crimes. Examples are the drug war and high immigration from socially backwards countries. Prosperity can also be attacked easily, as a huge, influential entity like a state can pressure free market industry through laws, among those most notably the hysteria surrounding carbon-dioxide (CO2) that has increased the price of electricity and prevented the creation of more jobs. Of cause, bringing in more people also lowers the income, since more supply (people) with the same demand (jobs) automatically reduces the price (wage).
Reducing political awareness has mainly been introduced through the creation of a series of thoughts inside the voters: "My vote doesn't change things anyway.", "All parties are corrupt, i can't support anyone.", "My candidate doesn't have a large voter base, he won't win anyway." and others are the reason why many do not vote. However, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy if the majority does buy into it. In return, once the spell is broken, the house of cards falls apart within years. All of the means above destroy the unity of a country, creating tribalism and anti-social behavior, often out of necessity of the people. Poverty makes thieves, and in this case you often cannot blame people for it. We would throw away ideals too if we where on the verge of losing everything we have, including our life. In a way, this step is nothing more than a much more powerful distraction: One an individual cannot ignore even if he or she tries to.
All of the means previously described naturally escalate in a feedback-loop up to a certain point. In the past, when governments got too authoritarian, a revolution happened, and in most cases within decades things returned to a stable order, until the elites did the same error again, the people let it do to them, and in the end, revolution reset it. However, we no longer live in these times. Developments that once took decades now happen within months, and the political landscape is shifting faster than ever before. The technology allows for a much greater living standard, but also for a much more terrifying authoritarian regime, which is only introduced in the last step:
This is where the last pieces are moved into position. The people are divided, uninformed, poor, and only concerned with imminent issues, living from paycheck to paycheck without a red cent for a rainy day. Now the elites emerge and promise to solve all the problems of the world, dry all tears and in essence create a better situation that ever before. The lies are obvious, but since people are distracted, poor, alone, they literally cannot be concerned about the future beyond a few days. They have to worry about their job, their belongings, and of cause all the enemies hiding among the population.
Some policies that are signs of an authoritarian take-over are:
Vast increases of the police and military (manpower, arms, extended rights/protections) "to combat the enemy" (that the elites created for this purpose)
Consolidation of power from the people to a centralized government "to combat the poverty/disease/social unrest" (that the elites created for this purpose), which includes:
Taking powers such as the right to bear arms away
Harsh punishment for dissent and media censorship
Consolidation of the remaining wealth to divide the under- and middle and even upper classes into just a huge slave underclass and a tiny aristocratic ruler class so that there are only sardines and great white sharks in the pond
Extension of state control into the affairs of the people "to combat criminal elements" (that the elites created for this purpose), especially through surveillance
The list goes on further, and many measures will be disguised as a Trojan horse: "Oh, with internet censorship we will fight ISIS propaganda" when it is now being used to censor everyone with an opinion that doesn't align with political correctness.
After step 3 has been completed, the police state is fully operational. The elites who have worked towards it lose all of the nice, deceptive attitude towards the people and simply revel in their despair.
It is important to know that while the steps are always in that order, there are different strategies that all go through the steps at a different pace, and all of the effects feed into each other. A cleverly designed elite takeover is hard to combat, but everything that man creates we can also destroy, and if there's one thing that humans are good at, it is to tear down what others spent decades to build. In the recent years, the attempt at a global, unelected, authoritarian police state has been forced into the open. However, we are in the final stages, and a vast amount of the population has been fully distracted with in-fighting, progressivism, social and financial instability and a vast amount of other reasons not to pay attention to what the real enemy is doing.
The advantage is that tearing down something always is much easier than building it. The process of creating a police state requires long-term, precise planning, the awakening to it happens in a fraction of that time. The subsequent purge of the elites in the past took months, and if it was just a single country affected, it'd probably take days, however since we the current police state is constructed to be global, it will likely take years to fully destroy the last traces of it from the first to the third world.
However, the time after a great period of suffering has always been the blessed the most. The death of authoritarian elites on a large scale allowed for the Renaissance to happen, and if we manage to halt the current ambition of the controller-elites, we are looking at a hundred times that level of prosperity and progress. One thing is for sure, through all of history: Once the revolution happens, there is nowhere the elites can hide. And all authoritarian regimes to this day experienced a revolution sooner or later.