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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.

Madeleine Albright

Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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