As history reveals, however, the proliferation of any fascist, authoritarian or totalitarian mindset wreaks grave consequences that are not limited to the atrocities that happened in Hitler's Germany. Stalinism, Maoism, and Communism plagued the 20th Century with the world's most sinister dictators (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, to name a few) who delivered mass genocides totaling well over 130 million deaths.
And let's not forget the totalitarian mindset of the environmental extremist
William Ruckleshaus who, with a single stroke of his pen, outlawed DDT and brought about almost as much death (more than 96,000,000) and suffering (more than 14,000,000,000) in less than 36 years than the Communists and Nazis did in the entire 20th century. Previous to that, DDT had saved over 500,000,000 lives in the two decades it had been in use.
I was just thinking about this this morning—that Ruckleshaus was directly responsible for more deaths than possibly any other person in the history of the world. My follow-up thought though, was that had he not outlawed DDT, someone in the Carter administration surely would have.