Comments on: It Can’t Happen Here https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/23696/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/23696/#comment-457754 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:48:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23696#comment-457754 a “true leader” uses the masses like “tools.” He must inflame their passions with little heed for the facts. “Men are as clay in the hands of the consummate leader.”

‘mission to inflame the American public into “one white-hot mass” under the banner of “100 percent Americanism.” Fear was a vital tool, he argued, “an important element to be bred in the civilian population.”‘

It DID happen here, under Woodrow Wilson.
Sedition Act & Espionage Act were passed and used to lock up political opponents.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0205/p09s01-coop.html

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