What the European facists exposed to the world is how people can be controlled and manipulated with consumate ease. Edward Bernates in 1920's USA understood this concept very well, and was probably the first man to actually put the idea into practice.
Freedom is a confrontational event, it is not just a word. Freedon: I am free to think and speak my mind in a free Nation, without control or hinderance from others.
This is where the problem really starts, yes I am free to think and speak, but when my thoughts and words stat to control others, our freedom is threatened. Hitler and his like studied Bernayes and discovered new ways of controlling people through education and reason. The Nazies where corrupted by their own arrogance, and through them a Nation was corruputed, the result, a second European civil war from which Europe has never really recovered.
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