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You only need a handful of Single Issue Fanatics to attain positions that allow them power and authority in order to reach a position whereby the majority (and most sensible views on life matters) go unrepresented and minority views hold sway.
The problem is that the SIFs will mostly be driven people for whom their issue of choice defines the entire world as well as their own righteousness.
In normal times these people are identified and contained in some way within representative society.
In abnormal times they gain the power and control they seek and wreak their own personal version of havoc. In the worst cases wars are fought.
It is perhaps pertinent to observe that the last generation to have the full experience of war (in most of Europe) is now disappearing and that the American generation that partially experienced something similar over the extended period of the Vietnam conflict is also thinning out.
Maybe the younger generations will have to go through their own experiences to properly begin to understand what the silent majority's silence can lead to.
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