This is a well known quote:
"....people don't want to go to war.... But, after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any country."
Didn't they do this during the Cold War?
Something similar is happening now with the war on terror. Conservative bottom-feeders see liberals as being "soft on terror "and so place the nation at risk. Liberals are also "hostile to traditional "values" of the ordinary Australians. Liberals are overeducated cultural elite who are reeponsible for the cultural rot and are contemptuous of the beliefs and practices of the masses of ordinary people.