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“Like religion, politics traffics in and plays upon our deepest hopes and fears. And like religion, authoritharian political propaganda works by first making us feel endangered and then offering us a way to escape form our feelings of helplessness.”

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Book:On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

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