It is Nazism turned upside-down, âinverted totalitarianism.â While it is a system that aspires to totality, it is driven by an ideology of the cost-effective rather than of a âmaster raceâ (Herrenvolk), by the material rather than the âideal.â. Inverted totalitarianism reverses things. Whereas in Nazi Germany the state dominated economic actors, in inverted totalitarianism, corporations through political contributions and lobbying, dominate the United States, with the government acting as the servant of large corporations. 2  This is considered normal rather than corrupt.
In 1910, he entered politics, winning a state senate seat as a Democrat in the heavily Republican Dutchess County. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson named Roosevelt assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy.
Theodore Roosevelt Was No Conservative. There's a reason he left the GOP to lead the Progressive Party. We know that Barack Obama and his allies identify themselves as progressives, and that they aim to implement the big-government liberalism that originated in America's Progressive Era and was consummated in the New Deal.