>The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...
-General Douglas MacArthur
How true is this statement and why do Americans, especially /pol/lacks, keep falling for the fear and hate mongering?
>the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
/pol/ hasn't learned from history
or have you?