Answer: They thought they were free.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Excerpt:
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter."
2 comments:
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Oh it's being repeated alright. Consider all the Republicans and their culpability. From NDAA to SOPA and PIPA, the Patriot Act, etc. It makes me sick. And here there is a candidate make every effort to put a stop to it and they call him a kook. Those Republicans will get their comeuppance if they aren't careful.
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