[sagonar]

I reject that USA has been a totalitarian cause it has had slaves or women has not always been allowed to vote.

I think you must look at the way the rest of the world was during the same time to get a honest picture of the "totalitarian state" of USA.

Hand pick some historic situation and then comparing versus a "Perfect World" (and since USA was not as good as this Perfect world.. then it must totalitarian/evil/..) This is not an honest way to frame the argument

[komali2]

Throughout the more than hundred thousand years humans have been organizing societies there is ample evidence for vastly more egalitarian societies than anywhere close to what the usa has achieved. I'm not comparing to a mythical utopia, I'm framing within the definable boundaries of human history.

[mrguyorama]

The fact that most of human history has been abjectly totalitarian is not a defense for the US being actively totalitarian.

[midoridensha]

Huh? Totalitarianism was invented in the 20th century. It never existed before that.

You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism