Never again ask "How did Germans let it hapen?"

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57. The enemy looks just like us.

Unless we learn what distinguishes us from them (fascists), we will simply trod the well worn path to war and destruction.

Conservatives are easily detected in any number of ways: written tests, brain scanning, etc. We must discover why their brains went wrong (as I prefer to believe) and ours went right (or left, I'm so confused). Facts, talking, explaining, reasoning will have no effect except to raise your blood pressure.

No doubt there is a gene and 'all' we have to do is figure out how to switch it on or off with epigenetics. Preferably before the Russians/Republicans do. You know they are looking. Causation is another matter entirely. Obviously, wingnuts still think there are saber-toothed tigers behind every chair, curtain or bush and can't turn off their autonomic responses or contact their frontal lobes. I am NOT being sarcastic. That's the way it works. Conservative brains stall somewhere in the middle.

If it's not genetic, then we must look at social intervention. Having a unified, public, fact-based education starting from birth if necessary might work. Don't get your knickers in a twist, but we might need what is essentially 're-education' for parents. Charter schools and home schools are only producing self-interested or self-satisfied citizens.

Talk about Gordian knots or philosophical quandaries! Pithy stuff. Politics? Social structure? Privacy? Eugenics? Keep in mind that tigers are practicing eugenics while keeping deer healthy. So are Snowy Owls when they share their dead young with their live young. There is a real life out there, bloody in tooth and claw, that many of us have never had to face. The time may be coming when you will have to ask what you will do for your country and species.