03-31-2017, 11:16 PM
Probably the best civics lesson I have ever found -- brief, simple, profound, universal, and somewhat cynical.
It applies as much to Lenin and Pinochet, to Tito and Trump, and to Lincoln and Satan Hussein alike.
It applies as much to Lenin and Pinochet, to Tito and Trump, and to Lincoln and Satan Hussein alike.
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.