How could Germans living under Hitler's National Socialism not have seen what it was? How did their lack of social and personal awareness make them blind to their reality?
How could Americans now possibly be living under a creeping dictatorship and not know it? And how could we not only not see a police state condition but actually think we're living in complete freedom?
Because most of us don't WANT to know what's going on. We've
lost the ability to think critically about political, economic, and social dangers confronting us.
If we have a job--as most people did in Nazi Germany--if the political-economic system seems stable--as it does in America--then that's all we want to know.
Bush, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, and the other members of the current administration are trying to frighten Americans by telling us that we are traitors if we criticize their actions. On the contrary, they are traitors to the American practice of democracy in trying to suppress honest citizens' thought and dissent.
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