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Home Front: Politix
Clarity in the Obama Era
2015-04-23
h/t Instapundit
One silver lining of living during the Obama Era is that we get to witness something that many of us found inexplicable when we learned about it in school: How a civilized country can be brought to the heel of ideologues and thugs. It's always seemed a bizarre mystery why a large majority of reasonable people would let things that are so patently wrong, so clearly corrosive of everything we value, go on... and expand.
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Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169   2015-04-23 16:03  

#1  "How a civilized country can be brought to the heel of ideologues and thugs. It’s always seemed a bizarre mystery why a large majority of reasonable people would let things that are so patently wrong, so clearly corrosive of everything we value, go on… and expand."

One might read the The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany to get insights into why a civilized country can be “brought to the heel of ideologues and thugs.”

The following quote, sometimes attributed to Edmund Burke explains a great deal: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-04-23 14:43  

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