Is Santa Claus the Ultimate Totalitarian?

You better watch out and not complain. He’ll know, and he’s coming for you.

Photo by Jesson Mata on Unsplash

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, the time of year when an old terror arises.

There’s a lot of talk about fascism and even totalitarianism these days, but we often disregard the ultimate plot for world domination that takes over several countries for a month or even more each year.

It’s been around us for decades, maybe even centuries, but we haven’t paid attention to how deep and all-encompassing this regime really is.

I’m taking a huge risk here, speaking truth to power, but I think it’s worth it just to give you an idea of the things we’ve normalized that are happening under our very eyes.

Here are some of the characteristics of Santa’s regime. His totalitarian toolbox, if you will.

He’s shrouded in mystery.

There’s not a lot we actually know about Santa. He covers his face with a beard so we don’t see his features. If we were able to run facial recognition software on him, what would we find?

And we don’t know his full name, either. There are indications that his original name is Nick or Nicholas, but we don’t know for sure. And what about…