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Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

If The Decline Of Christianity Created The Modern Political Zealot - And His Crimes - So The Evaporation Of Religious Faith Among The Educated Left A Vacuum In The Minds Of Western Intellectuals Easily Filled By Secular Superstition. There Is No Other Explanation For The Credulity With Which Scientists, Accustomed To Evaluating Evidence, And Writers, Whose Whole Function Was To Study And Criticize Society, Accepted The Crudest Stalinist Propaganda At Its Face Value. They Needed To Believe; They Wanted To Be Duped.

A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were Arrested: Naturally - Otherwise No One Would Be Frightened. If People Were Arrested Only For Specific Misdemeanours, All The Others Would Feel Safe And So Become Ripe For Treason.

Marxism, Freudianism, Global Warming. These Are Proof - Of Which History Offers So Many Examples - That People Can Be Suckers On A Grand Scale. To Their Fanatical Followers They Are A Substitute For Religion. Global Warming, In Particular, Is A Creed, A Faith, A Dogma That Has Little To Do With Science.

If You Depart From Moral Absolutes, You Go Into A Bottomless Pit. Communism And Nazism Were Catastrophic Evils Which Both Derived From Moral Relativism. Their Differences Were Minor Compared To Their Similarities.