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Daily reminder:
Cynicism is the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.
Every day I am looking to see how cynical US Americans and Europeans are.
I fear that the hopelessness they are trying to engender in the majority of US citizens doea become more powerful each day.
Cynicism is the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.
Every day I am looking to see how cynical US Americans and Europeans are.
I fear that the hopelessness they are trying to engender in the majority of US citizens doea become more powerful each day.

