09-24-2020, 08:20 PM
When your political agenda is nothing more than "stick it to the opponents", you eventually end up in the position in which others stick it to you. It's a primitive attitude, one that some people never outgrow.
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.