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"The challenge we’re facing isn’t that millions of hapless and benighted yokels have been bamboozled by disinformation. It’s that millions of otherwise ordinary people from many walks of life—including many who went to and even excelled in college—" /1 https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene
"have a material or ideological interest in keeping the Democratic Party & its voters from power by any means possible. & those means include the utilization of narratives, including conspiracy theories, that delegitimize Democrats & offer hope of their eventual comeuppance." /2
"Democrats should try campaigning on the truth: The Republican Party is controlled by intelligent, college-educated, and affluent elites who concoct dangerous nonsense to paper over a bigoted, plutocratic agenda and to justify attacks on the democratic process." /3
"That agenda and those attacks are supported by millions of reasonably intelligent voters who will believe or claim to believe anything that furthers the objective of keeping conservatives in control of this country forever." /4
Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen lived through the Nazi era in Germany. In his Diary of a Man in Despair, he notes (p. 192) that, while the German proletariat resisted Hitler insofar as it could, it was middle-class, educated people who supported and empowered him. /5
Joachim Fest came of age in Nazi Germany. In his Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood, he writes,
“On another occasion he [Fest’s father] spoke of the main error that he and his friends had fallen victim to, because they had believed all too unreservedly in reason," /6
“On another occasion he [Fest’s father] spoke of the main error that he and his friends had fallen victim to, because they had believed all too unreservedly in reason," /6
"in Goethe, Kant, Mozart, and the whole tradition which came from that. Until 1932 he had always trusted that this tradition was proof enough, that a primitive gangster like Hitler could never achieve power in Germany. But he hadn’t had a clue." /7
"One of the most shocking things for him had been to realize that it was completely unpredictable how a neighbor, colleague, or even a friend might behave when it came to moral decisions” (pp. 359-60). /8
Here's Charles Marsh in his biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, talking about who led the way to the nation's capitulation to Hitler: Germany's church leaders Catholic and Protestant, educated men, along with other professional leaders of high education.
