Abuse of the people

I read this quote recently and it really shocked me.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country

What shocked me was that this could have been a quote from any year of this current century, but it's not.

It's a quote from Hermann Göring, second in command in the Third Reich, in an interview from his prison cell in 1946 awaiting trial at Nuremberg.

History has a terrifying habit of repeating itself and we almost never learn anything from it.