08-03-2016, 06:26 PM
The big change was the near-disappearance of a political center. The two Parties became sharply ideological . America has become about as polarized into hostile camps as Spain in the 1930s.
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.