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In the 90's I used to think Ron Paul was an eccentric who was relatively harmless and who made some good points on certain subjects. I could have never imagined that he would be able to inflict so much damage on the country by the mainstreaming of his most outlandish and ridiculous viewpoints. I would never have imagined that obvious lunatics like Alex Jones would be given airtime on major news networks or that Elders of Zion type conspiracy mongering would become part of the national discourse in the US.
It is hard to believe how much damage one senile old man can do. It just goes to show how dangerous simplistic populist rhetoric can be with an uneducated and easily manipulated populace.
In the 1800's Germany was considered the jewel of the enlightenment and the most advanced country intellectually in the world. By the 1930s it had slipped into a totalitarian fascist nightmare that will be a stain on its history for a millennium. It only serves to warn what kind of damage a demagogue preaching populist slogans about the evils of banks and commerce can do to even the most civilized country.
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