03-04-2017, 07:36 PM
Of course there are also brighter prospects than apocalypse and tyranny for America. We might all take delight in an America vastly reformed and better than ever. We could have a more equitable social system with more opportunity and economic safety. We might have a culture that uniformly cherishes (as is already so for middle-class members of minority groups) first-rate education and demands it as a birthright and civic duty.
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.