Rod Dreher, author of “Live Not by Lies,” believes that our fear of pain and struggle has been exploited by the elite class and created soft totalitarianism in the United States and in much of the West. He said we’re at a critical point and must push back against it to stop hard totalitarianism from taking hold.
“They’re terrified of anything that makes them anxious, any struggle they have,” Dreher told Jan Jekielek, host of “American Thought Leaders,” during a recent interview. “This is the source of the tyranny. We are so afraid to be poor ... we’re afraid to be anxious, to be unhappy, that so many of us will do just about anything to avoid trouble and to protect our middle-class comfort.”
