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Hello and welcome.

I'd like to start today by asking you a very serious question.

What do you know about human psychology?

I'm asking this question for a very specific and a very important reason.

The other day, somebody mentioned to me that people like Stalin and Mussolini,

they tortured and killed millions of people.

But the more fascinating element of that is that millions more people were okay with it.

They sanctioned it. They had no issue with what these leaders were doing.

They somehow convinced and diluted the masses to be okay with the fact that they were torturing

and killing millions of other people in their society.

You might be thinking that's a horrible thing.

That's a horrible component of history, but that could never happen today.

Which begs the question, how does it happen?

The answer to that question is that it happens through a process of dehumanization.

In 2011, the MPR ran an article entitled Less Than Human, The Psychology of Cruelty.

I stumbled upon this article this weekend and it was really fascinating.

It talked about how it's important that we define, recognize, and quote,

describe dehumanization because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide.

The article then goes back and it gives you a brief history of all of the times,

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