Please -- let's take the discussion of the election itself (unless it is of a comparison with another election in American history) to some other, if necessary, new thread. If you believe as Eric or I do that the dumbing-down of the American electorate or the debasement of the intellectual content of American politics singly or together degrade the quality of the choices that Americans end up with, then let us take the discussion there. I intend to do so with my post with the Hitler citation.
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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.