Extremism succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions. In the end those who empower an autocrat often surrender their democracy & the very influence they once hoped to preserve. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
the deadliest danger now confronting humanity is the "scapegoat" psychology associated with the old ethic. We are in the grip of this psychology when we project our own dark shadow onto an individual or group identified as our "enemy," failing to see it inourselves. sites.google.com/view/somnus/...
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Hitler came to power because democrat socialists thought a coup could be stopped with elections. Sound familiar?
Because the masses shrug their shoulders, actually.
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Exactly. So much of our current Trump authoritarian nexus parallels the rise of Fascism in Germany in the 1930's, when Democracy was Destroyed from within.