10-26-2022, 12:33 AM
The Millennial Generation has yet to have the Baddie types of the GI Generation -- Vorster, Honecker, Ceausescu, Zhivkov, "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Pinochet, Bokassa I, Ne Win. OK, Kim Jong-Un is an early-bloomer at tyranny. Some early-wave Silent (Castro, Pol Pot, Amin, Videla) have been really nasty for repression and/or mass murder.
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.