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When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.

Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler's rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.

"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.

Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.

In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.

The president's poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.

Quoted from Box A Rox

It's amazing how many Conservatives will bring up Hitler &  the Nazis, when there is a democrat in office... but they never seemed to get the connection between Hitler and George W Bush's torture campaign.

(Torture... a Republican Value!)

Wasn't it Hitler who invaded several countries and replaced their leaders with a Regime Change???  Kind of like George Worst Bush's Oil invasion of Iraq and his Regime Change!

Again, Hitler invading is wayyyyy different than Bush invading.

Quoted from Stein

I love how this comes up now, but were any of you posting this when the Patriot Act was passed?