01-01-2017, 12:31 PM
I suppose that if one is a right-wing Cuban-American Cubs fan who wishes that Fulgencio Batista could come back to life and set everything straight in Cuba, then it was a good year.
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.