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This is the hard problem of society. What to do with the % of your population with that are capable of being conned by charming, but obviously bad tragic lying narcissists (Trump / Boris Johnson) or have some fundamentally anti-human streak like racism.

Perhaps it isn't so much that we're sufficiently far way from WWII now that people have just forgotten the dangers, more that we haven't been explicit enough about the red flags and lessons offered by people like Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin (and then Mao, Pol Pot etc).

It's no surprise that strong men usually go for educators first.

One problem is that most people just don't really examine what's going on, either because they don't have the time, skew gullable, are generally trusting or don't have the relevant critical faculties.

Education can help with some of those. I was very heartened by this recent news piece

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/10/uk...