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Thom Hartmann :

"..Umberto Eco, who had a ringside seat to the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s, noted in his “14 indicators of fascism” that dumbing down the populace by lowering educational standards was critical to producing a compliant populace a fascist leader could easily manipulate.
“All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks,” he wrote, “made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”