Theos-Talk Archives (June 1996 Message tl00573)

Alex,
There seems to have something about that period that made it impossible for
people to act except in mobs.  Whoever screamed the loudest got the votes of
the marching morons with shovels.
We are more likely to get mad at such people and I think the fragmentation of
society has done much for freedom.  It makes it very difficult (though not
yet impossible) for a demogogue to get very far.
Do you remember the MTV ncsa a few years back.  It had footage of Hitler,
Mussolini, STalin and the Mad Mullah and then the voice over said that the
founding fathers came up with a way to keep idiots like that from running the
country--voting.

Chuck