I started reading other histories, and at that point it became inescapably clear, you know, would-be dictators, whether it's on the right or the left, all do the same 10 things. She was talking about 1930, '31, '32, when Germany, we forget, was a parliamentary democracy, really a modern state, and through legal means a group of people led a systemic assault on the constitution and on parliamentary process and put various kinds of pressure on the open society to close it down. But finally she made me read some history and I realized that she was right. NAOMI WOLF (Author): What started all of this going was a good friend of mine, who's the daughter of Holocaust survivors, who when we would discuss current events now, she kept saying, they did this in Germany, they did this in Germany, and I thought this was so extreme and far out there that I really disregarded it. Wolf draws comparisons between the current Bush administration and the rule of both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. It's called "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot." And it outlines 10 steps that would-be dictators take when they want to shut down an open society. That's the provocative premise of Naomi Wolf's latest book. America is at risk of losing its democracy.
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