While I was reading through chapter 7 of my Comparative Economics textbook, I read something that accurately describes politics in America over the last few years:
"Authorities appealed to the masses through a charismatic leader who promulgated myths and aroused fears and other emotions, especially by focusing on scapegoats. Rational thought was scorned. In its place were substituted emotion, passion, and impulses. Authorities gathered support by using lower-ranking political hacks to spread propaganda that was based upon material borrowed selectively and opportunistically from the writings of intellectuals. Members of the society were "educated" to feel part of a glorious, strong, superior state that was "deified...as the supreme embodiment of the human spirit." As part of a common culture, they were expected to accept the philosophy and policy measures proposed by their leader."
The problem with this paragraph is that the whole chaper is about Nazi Germany, and its economic policy.
- Adam Scruggs
