Comments on: Authoritarianism http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/01/29/authoritarianism/ Ruminations on life, art, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:09:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debi Kelly Van Cleave http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/01/29/authoritarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Debi Kelly Van Cleave Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:58:04 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=799#comment-269 I promise I'm coming back to this post because I did skim but like Beth, I want to know, how do we fix this? I'm getting depressed. It's frustrating and scary. www.GreenerPastures--ACityGirlGoesCountry.blogspot.com I promise I’m coming back to this post because I did skim but like Beth, I want to know, how do we fix this? I’m getting depressed. It’s frustrating and scary.

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]]> By: Beth http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/01/29/authoritarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Beth Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:47:14 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=799#comment-260 Thanks for explaining this all so well, Jeff. It is certainly a complex subject, but you did a good job of summarizing it. Enlightening, but chilling. It gives us a lot of insight into why Bush was able to push through his agenda (and why people like Rush Limbaugh are so successful), but how can we use this knowledge to prevent it in the future? Thanks for explaining this all so well, Jeff. It is certainly a complex subject, but you did a good job of summarizing it. Enlightening, but chilling. It gives us a lot of insight into why Bush was able to push through his agenda (and why people like Rush Limbaugh are so successful), but how can we use this knowledge to prevent it in the future?

]]> By: June http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/01/29/authoritarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-259 June Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:35:21 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=799#comment-259 I studied social psychology some in school...I was always fascinated with how "we" operate...how the course of history is changed by it. For all time...and in so many ways. Some are well known like pre-WW2 Germany...others are not documented at all. The innate human emotion of fear is so easily morphed into something ugly. I studied social psychology some in school…I was always fascinated with how “we” operate…how the course of history is changed by it. For all time…and in so many ways. Some are well known like pre-WW2 Germany…others are not documented at all. The innate human emotion of fear is so easily morphed into something ugly.

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