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No one knows exactly what it is that a whole nation can be led by a voice, a set of ideas, that can be geared into embracing a set of beliefs where they believe it is right to destroy and eradicate another people and another culture. And it’s happened since, in Cambodia, and of course the purges in Stalinist Russia are another version of a kind of genocide. And I think we see extremist beliefs possible in all countries, and there can be reaction, one set of extremist beliefs leading to horrific and destructive things create another response that’s the same or even more. So I think it’s…and I think it can creep up on us before we know that we’re in it.
