“…Here we find a description of the mass rebellion against the elites, the deification of youth, the ever mounting expropriation of the well-to-do until they begin to defend themselves, whereupon the masses select a ‘leader’ whose task it is to protect ‘the people’; we see the bodyguards paid by the demagogue, the flight of the wealthy and the intellectuals, the rejection of democracy by the desperate upper classes as a result of this development, the evolution from ‘protection’ to tyranny, the spoilation of the temples, the militarization of the masses, the recruiting of criminals into the police force, the provocation of military conflicts in order to impose emergency measures at home, and thus a stricter national discipline, finally ‘purges’ and a mounting wave of corruption.”
—Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in Liberty or Equality, pages 12-13
Is this not a good description of our present distress in this country?
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