04-25-2022, 09:20 AM
We are seeing participants in the Capitol Putsch prosecuted in large numbers. The legal system offers no easy defenses. "Presidential orders"? Don't make me laugh. Self-defense when attacking a police officer? Ask most black people whether it is wise to defer to the cop and avoid an escalation of the encounter. Who says that one need be black to recognize that?
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.