
This quote needs a context. The same issue was mentioned in “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century” by Prof. Snyder. It is a very appropriate read for today’s times, and I think everyone should read it. It also is a relatively short book.
The tyrannts were able to change government and consolidate power, because people were apathetic and just accepted it (for example “this doesn’t affect me”).
Remember that Germany was a democracy when it turned into Nazism. Same thing can happen in US if we let it.
I wouldn’t say fixed as things are the same way as they are, but reminded us how every day we are fucked by oligarchs.
This is a weird time as we just elected them, just look how many billionaires are in trump’s cabinet picks.