Whatever song we are making, we use the same notes, and they are beautiful notes. A speech by Martin Luther King or Adolf Hitler will be written using the same letters, and a calligrapher can make them both look equally beautiful.

If you can focus people's attention on the little details, and on a blurry distant vision, with luck they will never pay attention to what is actually going on around them.

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But I still think "fascist" is a word that points us in the wrong direction, and disguises the real danger we face. This isn't measles, it's something else; it could still kill, but it won't do it quite the same way. No good crying "wolf" when the threat is from armed men.