The Reversal of Individualism

Psychoanalytic sociologist eric fram was doing research on the german people during the inter war years in the weimar republic. He found that around ten % of them had what he called authoritarian leanings, 15% were democratically minded and 75% landed somewhere in between. People at first were confused as to why they could ever get behind a facious leader like hitler. Fram would say it's downright dangerous if you don't understand the true reasons behind why people supported a leader like that in the first place.