The Terror of Totalitarianism

[imartin2k]

https://www.fs.blog/2018/03/hannah-arendt-totalitarianism/

[vixen99]

"One of the most disturbing things about Nazism in Germany is how quickly the country changed. They went from democracy to concentration camps in fewer than ten years."

[cmurf → vixen99]

School history emphasizes what happened, not why. And this missed how to avoid it. The assumption is it's avoidable, it can't happen here. Because.

The power of humiliation, destitute, scapegoating, and cult of personality.