01-31-2017, 03:22 PM
It doesn't have to be perfect propaganda. 51% of the people is enough under ordinary circumstances, and as with Mussolini, Hitler, Castro, and Trump it didn't take a majority. The incompetence of the Opposition is often enough.
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.