Very interesting article. I would add one more, important, thing that is specific to current situation:
11 Always talk and demand for transparency and open society.
Ofc this is not true because they demand only civil sector to be open while at the same time they are closed and even secret (ffs secret laws???). You can't demand open society with one or more parts of that society closed. Let me rephrase this, when facebook/google calls for open society -> they should open their database first, not demanding people to give them more data and lock that data down.
Little bit radical idea, but don't demand something you are not willing to make yourself.
I breathed a sigh of relief when the neo-cons voluntary relinquished power; I had been convinced that Naomi Wolf was right, and that democracy was almost over. Turns out, Cheney was just one head of the hydra, and the march to tyranny never really stopped. :(
4. A powerful executive center for decision making, interfering with the established separation of powers.
5. Powerful Media channels controlled by the executive power and the industry in bed with it, leading propaganda and misinformation.
That is exactly what you need to start a more total state.