(12-29-2016, 07:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "Imagine if you will...."
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... a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal gives up on liberty and equality. But a huckster comes along who tells people that they don't need liberty and equality if they can return to some mythical time of 'greatness'. It's been tried before, and it never worked well in the past. All that anyone need is a hollow leader who creates his own myths and has nothing to lose if those myths fail to work.
Many Americans have seen their high-school civics classes as good times for taking a nap. Now they are going to get to see what they missed while napping in those high-school classes, because the classroom is coming to them. They won't be able to sleep through a lesson taught by someone lacking the temperament to teach anything... and a school called The Twilight Zone.
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.