12-10-2016, 06:43 PM
(12-10-2016, 05:50 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump supporters believe lies.
Knowing that the President that we are about to get was elected by people who fell for a campaign of Goebbels-like lies makes me regret that I am an American. I have no idea of any relief that I can have in knowing that I am right, especially when being right means feeling an alien in the country in which one was born.
Reality has an uncanny knack for hitting the stupid and deluded hard. It can also hit the rational and learned hard, too.
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.