Status Updates From Fascism and Democracy

“relative freedom (…) depends on public opinion. (…)Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how (…), depends on the general temper of the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”