“Educated people who think that it could never happen here. Educated people who don’t even know what it is, those who are clueless of the totalitarian excesses of the last century.”
Most “educated” people aren’t people aren’t educated-—they’re indoctrinated. No critical thinking necessary. (Excluding, of course, doctors, nurses, scientists, etc. I’m talking about political science majors, English majors, interpretive dance majors, that sort of thing)
I’m talking about people who work in professional jobs and do have the capacity to understand if they could even bring themselves to believe that the cold war could have been lost and although it appears we won it, these new developments here indicate that may not be the case.
There are plenty of people who have been conditioned to think anyone who mentions communism as a potential threat is nuts.