Group+4

=THE HILLS=

Group 4 Ben Goldstein Mike Gehm Rachel Irizarry Lana Ploshchansky

**Military / armed forces:** We want to seize control over this because the army is ours and fights against the enemy. This shows the kind of power that we can control.




 * Elementary / high schools:** We want to take control over this because we can teach them our ideas and beliefs so when they get out of school they are on our side. We are basically going to brain wash them. Our army will become bigger and that threatens the other armies.


 * Hospitals / doctors:** We want to conquer this because we want to have control of who the doctors can and cannot treat. The medicine will be used for our troops and our governments only. If the people are not on our side they will not be getting medical attention.


 * Government agencies (CIA, FBI, etc.):** We need these government agencies because the FBI controls crime and can prevent an uprising within the country. CIA can go undercover in other countries to inform us of another countries planned attack.


 * Oil/gas companies:** If we control this we control our citizens transportation, heating of their homes, controlling these resources means we can control citizens. If we get word of an uprising we can cut off gas supplies.


 * Industrial factories:** We should take this over because they can make weapons for our army, guns, tanks, weapons of mass destruction. Auto companies can work closely with gas companies.


 * Workers’ unions:** If we take this over we control what they build, how many hours they work for, and also how much they make. Also if they conspire against us we can take away anything and everything.


 * Power companies:** This is important because we can take over the power of people's homes, heating, lighting, power of factories, power of agencies and everything that we control.


 * Banking industry:** money=power, more money to buy weapons, also we can buy other countries alliance.


 * Judicial system:** Since it is a dictatorship people may be killed for unjust reasons and we can pardon these crimes.



There’s always a possibility of change but in our democratic way no totalitarian society has a possibility of existing in the United States. The totalitarian concept is that a state regulates nearly all aspects of private and public life. Although the United States gets involved in other areas of the world through war or economics, it is by no means to take complete control.
 * Could a totalitarian society ever exist in the United States? Why or why not?**


 * Is a totalitarian society free of crime, poverty and national security threats better than a free society plagued with crime, poverty and threats of attacks? Explain reasons.**

A totalitarian society free of crime, poverty and national security threats may seem better than the free society plagued with crime, poverty and threats of attacks that we currently live with. A totalitarian society is a harsh government where nearly every aspect of the citizen’s lives is controlled. The government controls their behaviors, incomes, food supply, housing, and more but also promise security. A free society is a more easy going government which makes you work to get farther, the downfall is that there is no security from crime, poverty, and national threats because they try to leave trust in the people. Its better to have a free society than a totalitarian society because it’s better to have personal rights and freedoms. It’s more valuable to have rights opposed to having security and every aspect being ruled.


 * How important is the leader or figurehead of a totalitarian regime? Can a totalitarian government exist without one?**

A totalitarian government requires a leader of the regime. It can either have a single leader or a small group of people acting together as a leader. It’s not possible for a totalitarian government to functionally run without a leader because it is based solely upon the orders of the figurehead. This was extremely problematic when Germany became a totalitarian society and Hitler was in command. This was a radical example of a totalitarian society where total control gets out of hand based on its leader, total censorship and control. Totalitarianism left its mark when Germany lost an important lesson from the disastrous consequences when someone manipulates members of society’s views and actions.In a totalitarian goverment a leader seizes power. The definition of a totalitarian society requires a leader. In order for a leader to be chosen, this person must be able to conform one's views and thinking into his own and develop the power.