Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Harbin.com.

Welcome back to our program. Tom Harbin here with you and back in 19 in the late 1940s, a reporter for the Chicago son by the name of Milton Mayor went over to

Germany and spent a year there and interviewed 10 quote good Germans to ask them what the

hell happened to your country back in the early 30s how did how did this come about none of these

guys had been active you know in the military, they all worked

throughout the war.

One was a bricklayer, one was a college professor, one was a baker, and I just wanted

to read to you very quickly as a setup for our next guest.

One of the comments that this was the college professor that Milton Mayor interviewed,

the book is called They Thought they thought they were free it

was published in 1953 I think and what this guy said was and I quote what happened

here was the gradual habituation of the people little by little to being governed by surprise to receiving decisions

deliberated in secret to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government

had to act on information which the people could not understand.

Or so dangerous that even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national

security.

The separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly,

each step designed, disguised, perhaps even, not even intentionally,

as a temporary emergency measure or associated

with true patriotic allegiance or a real social purpose.

And all the crises and reforms, and there were real reforms, so occupied the people that they did

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