11-18-2016, 07:42 AM
That's an old joke. In the 1950s it might have been baseball great Mickey Mantle, Senator Joseph R. (I have Commies to expose) McCarthy, the Pope, and a ten-year-old boy. "Don't worry. Senator McCarthy took my schoolbag".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.