I was thinking this as I read Harry Potter (and I'm not giving anything away here), as a follow up to seeing Last King of Scotland a while a ago: Why do people follow madmen? It's seems to be an unanswerable questions, or rather there are a multitude of reasons but it doesn't explain why some people do not follow and some do. Now Voldemort is fictional, and Idi Amin was all too terrifyingly and tragically real, but in the fictional account of him, it seems that anyone with half a brain could see that this person was out of their mind, paranoid, delusional, sociopathic , etc. AND therefore know that their own lives were precarious with such a person. My husband and I have discussed this at length, and come up with a small list: a) We make excuses for people's behavior until it's too much b) The possibility of power is tempting enough to ignore the possible dangers c) The basic human inability to ever really believe that it will happen to us. Yes, this person slaugh...
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