In what sense do you think I'm being hyperbolic? I'm pretty sure I mean every word of what I wrote literally.
(Though perhaps "authoritarian" would be a better choice of word than "totalitarian"; I mean it only in the broader sense of "infringing unjustly on individual freedom" and not in the stricter sense of "mandating total subservience to the state" that a Google 'define:' search yields as the first result. I thought it was correct to use "totalitarian" in the former sense, but don't have time to confirm; if I'm wrong, and that word choice is what you take issue with, then I'll concede that it was an erroneous word choice and I should've written "authoritarian" instead.)
(Though perhaps "authoritarian" would be a better choice of word than "totalitarian"; I mean it only in the broader sense of "infringing unjustly on individual freedom" and not in the stricter sense of "mandating total subservience to the state" that a Google 'define:' search yields as the first result. I thought it was correct to use "totalitarian" in the former sense, but don't have time to confirm; if I'm wrong, and that word choice is what you take issue with, then I'll concede that it was an erroneous word choice and I should've written "authoritarian" instead.)