Jason Stanley

“Democratic citizenship requires a degree of empathy, insight, and kindness that demands a great deal of all of us. There are easier ways to live.
For example, we can reduce our public engagement to consumption, viewing our labour as whatever we need do to enter the consumer marketplace with money in our pockets, free to choose our widgets, to shape an identity based upon consumption.
Or we can go global and expand our understanding of “us” by wandering the world and appreciating its cultures and wonders, considering both the people living in the refugee camps of the world and the residents of small towns of Iowa to be our neighbours, while maintaining a connection with our own local traditions and duties.”
― Jason Stanley

“These feelings of intolerance stand in direct opposition to democracy's ideal of freedom which requires that everyone be free to live as they wish and love who they wish. Fascist movements, therefore, can leverage these feelings to turn citizens against democracy itself.”
― Jason Stanley, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future