Poster Comment:
I used to wonder how some people today and many people in the past have fallen for this.
Then I realized Norman Mailer was right: the natural condition of mankind is fascism. Freedom has only existed for a little for 200 years, and even now we're losing it.
Fascists, no matter which name they use (fundamentalists, communists, socialists, whatever) want you to question nothing. We are to have no thoughts, no imagination, no music, no fun -- nothing that makes life worth living. You can see this horror in such novels as "1984" and "Brave New World."
Recently, the closest myth that portrays this is the Borg of Star Trek -- unconsious and unquestioning, which is exactly what these people want all of us to be.