[MD] conspiracy theories

[Arlo Bensinger]

[dmb]
Martha Nussbaum, also of the University of Chicago, says that the 
willingness to question the values and beliefs of one's own culture to is 
the very definition of philosophy. Its a principle, she says, that should 
guide all Universities. In terms of the MOQ, this is the expressed in terms 
of putting intellectual values over social values and it is considered 
immoral to assert social level values over intellectual values. That's why 
we find it so easy to dislike the fascists among us.

[Arlo]
And speaking of great literature, another Minnesotan great, Sinclair Lewis 
(who said "when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and 
carrying a cross") wrote "It Can't Happen Here". Wikipedia describes it as 
such.

"It Can't Happen Here is a satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis 
published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling 
against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who was 
modeled either on the flamboyantly dictatorial Huey Long of Louisiana, or 
on Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him 
the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political 
movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United 
States when people blindly support their leaders." (Wikipedia)