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News:

State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’

Comment:

Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate.

If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.

Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).

And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:

It is not him. It never was. It is us.

Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the current edition, is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.

If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.

Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.

BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!

Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.

We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?

Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.

If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.

Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another unexpected outbreak. Which is going to happen.