05-30-2016, 07:52 AM
Just imagine -- parts of California were the promised land to Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl conditions of the early 1930s, as we can so remember in The Grapes of Wrath, novel or film. Imagine this reversed.
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.