07-31-2016, 11:38 AM
Political violence, anti-vaccination crusades, that the elder Bush messed around with boys, Holocaust denial, David Barton's "godly America" thesis, "scientific" creationism, that 9/11 was an inside job, or that Barack Obama is not an American... it all similarly discredits one.
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.