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History professor, Timothy Snyder of Yale University, has specialized on 20th century tyranny -- and his message is something that everyone around the world should be extremely aware of.
I chose this clip, even though Bill Maher is driving me bananas with his silly interruptions.
In short:
Under no circumstances let a leader remove any of your civil rights.
A tyrant will blame "the others", then claim he/she was right when horror strikes, and use this ammo to restrict some human right.
A tyrant will twist the truth or outright lie, but blame others for lying.
Protect the democratic institutions - always uphold them.
There is a truth. Not believing anything to be true is dangerous.
When the political climate slowly changes, never change with it without taking a step back and think for yourself. Don't adjust! Don't follow what everyone else is doing. Think.
And don't ever think for a moment that Hitler or Stalin were super-villains of the kind that the world will never experience again. These tyrants were elected in times of uncertainty, and people adjusted to their politics and rhetorics.
I chose this clip, even though Bill Maher is driving me bananas with his silly interruptions.
In short:
Under no circumstances let a leader remove any of your civil rights.
A tyrant will blame "the others", then claim he/she was right when horror strikes, and use this ammo to restrict some human right.
A tyrant will twist the truth or outright lie, but blame others for lying.
Protect the democratic institutions - always uphold them.
There is a truth. Not believing anything to be true is dangerous.
When the political climate slowly changes, never change with it without taking a step back and think for yourself. Don't adjust! Don't follow what everyone else is doing. Think.
And don't ever think for a moment that Hitler or Stalin were super-villains of the kind that the world will never experience again. These tyrants were elected in times of uncertainty, and people adjusted to their politics and rhetorics.