"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
But Then It Was Too Late
Submitted by Robert Kaercher on Sat, 2011-08-13 22:51
An excerpt of Milton Mayer's They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45. I just recently finished this book and, while I don't entirely agree with all of the author's views, I highly recommend it for its insights into some of the cultural factors that allow fascism to take hold.
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