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StillWaters  ·  2438 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump team seeks to control, block Mueller’s Russia investigation

Yeah, I too get really worried about all the comments seen on-line about WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, NYT being fake news. I reveals how willing too many are to simply march in goose-step behind Trump.

Soon after WW2 academics placed a lot of focus on understanding what had just happened. Erich Fromm at that time published (IMO) two important works: His book on the "fear of freedom", and an article where he introduced the concept of "the authoritarian personality". The behavior we see in many of Trump's supporters 9and in Trump himself) is classical "authoritarian personality". And it is dangerous.





am_Unition  ·  2438 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Luckily, I think there are too many people aware of what we're dealing with for the gig to take permanent root.