\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a “racial pride” among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as “The Homeland” \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. We are the “true people,” he suggested, the only ones worthy of our nation’s concern; if bombs fall on others, or human rights are violated in other nations and it makes our lives better, it’s of little concern to us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d — Excerpt from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Thom Hartmann — Hartmann was of course talking about Adolph Hitler. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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