Reply #6: fascist government needs a fascist public mentality in order to succeed. [View All]

[dusmcj]

Nazi Germany is a laboratory example of this. Without the tacit enthusiasm of the people and the leadership strata of German society, particularly business, for the constructed values of the Nazi state, particularly the enthusiasm for authority, expansion, unified tribal communalism, and amoral application of national resources to support of said programs, the Nazi state could not have survived. The people always have the power, whether they're aware of exercising it or not doesn't matter.