[poconopundit]

Hey SunkenCiv,

A thought provoking story by Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan.

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

From the story...

The Minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly.

[SunkenCiv]

Single party state advocates are stooges who view those with whom they disagree as the only threat, hence, they hand over the keys to whatever demagogue spoon feeds them the Hate.

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”

― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements