It seems that the culture is moving toward centralization. We are looking for one person (or one institution) to be the answer for our problems. We eagerly looking up to the sky waiting the "messiah" to come, and when we feel that we've found the messiah, we'll give our devotion to the person. Most of the times, people are lured by the eloquent speech, strong charisma that glared from the body language and, interestingly most of them were relatively fast crawling their way up to the "throne" and anything else that fits in the criterias how a messiah should be.
Hitler was a nobody during the WW I. But, using his excellent rhetorical talent, he gained people's trust in no time. His message is very simple, bringing hope to the Germans who were devastated after the defeat in WW I. Nobody was aware of his ambition to bring Germany to the top of the world was any wrong at all.
I still remember that during the US 2008 election, many people believed that Obama is "the answer." Nobody really knows him before 2004, but yes, only in 4 years everybody fell in love with him without even knowing his background and standpoints. I am not saying that Obama is the same as hitler. But, I don't want us to be blinded by the eloquent speech and forget the essential content of the speech itself.
To make it worse, usually those who follow "the messiah" are not open for reasonable debates or facts. They will just blindly close their eyes and ears for any opposition. Probably, the best way to deal with those kind of people is to be quiet and let time unravels all the glaze around the core message.
Unfortunately, in many cases it is when everything is too late, when the leader already brought them down so low and at that time they will have no choice but to stick with him till the end.
All I can say now is please don't give your trust so easily to those who never prove his/her credibility for a reasonable long period and please be always skeptical to the content and refuse to be swayed away by eloquent delivery.
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