07-28-2018, 09:20 PM
(07-28-2018, 05:38 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-28-2018, 01:48 PM)David Horn Wrote: The old adage that the darkest hour is just before dawn may hold here. If an enraged populace finally sees the truth, things can turn around quickly. Note: can and will are not equivalent.
Ain't that the truth
History moves fast during a 4T, at least toward the end. That's when armies surge or collapse. Political orders can disintegrate quickly. Three years before V-E day, the Germans were advancing into Russia. A week before V-E day, Mussolini's cadaver was hanging upside down at a filling station, and Hitler had committed suicide.
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.