It’s easy, convenient even, to paint these men as evil. To write them off as monsters and to think we’re inherently better than them. It’s harder to realize that there’s a little bit of that same monster in all of us, and the only real way to stop that monster is to make sure that those with the ideas to destroy that which is good and true don’t attain power. Because once they do, and people start to believe their lies, and stop thinking of their fellow human beings as that—as human beings—then they are capable of anything, even the reprehensible evils that I witnessed with my own eyes just
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