This is a considered response and it raises a good point. What fostered extremism and then conformance in fascism (or Stalinism): The threat of violence and a

This is a considered response and it raises a good point. What fostered extremism and then conformance in fascism (or Stalinism): The threat of violence and a surveillance state. We certainly have the ingredients for authoritarian takeover in much of what are democracies, All it will take is somebody to harness them together.