Reply #17: Pol Pot (Cambodia) and followers came from the educated classes [View All]

[kiranon]

It would be wonderful if education made its recipients immune from dictatorships or falling for a cult or a movement that ended up in fascism of one kind or another. It doesn't. It takes a caring heart to fend off evil. And a caring person can be a democrat or a republican or a libertarian or whatever. Education alone will not make for a good person or a person able to withstand the onslaught of a really good propaganda campaign that speaks to the hole in their heart. Belief in the constitutional process more than in any one candidate will help to make sure that propaganda and flash or deception does not triumph.