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Hekate

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9. His poll numbers are already approaching the bottom third...
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 02:14 PM
Mar 2017

Last year I read that someone respectable had done a study that indicated that at any given time -- not just now -- about a third of US citizens would happily follow a strongman. I found that appalling, but probably psychologically true.

The other appalling thing, probably in the same article, was that in the middle of the last century (1930s - 1960s) some 80% of Americans agreed with the statement that "Democracy is the best form of government." The figure is now much much lower.

I don't know where to go with this, except Benedict Donald has a small hard core (sounds like a boil, doesn't it) but that the majority of America will eventually wake up.

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