Miller says that the authoritarian society in which Germans were raised, including their families and their schools, caused the German people to view their political leaders as their daddy. Viewing themselves as dependent, adult children of the Reich, individual Germans lacked the self- esteem and inner resolve to take an independent stand against the Nazi tyranny. Examine the situation in the U.S. today. Moreover, adult children of dysfunctional families do as Hitler did, they gravitate toward political power. Every one of us has his dark side.
Political power is no different from alcohol.
Drink enough liquor, and the greatest saint will become drunk. Exercise ever-increasing amounts of political power, and the result is the same. The ultimate solution, then, is to limit the power that public officials have to exercise. This was the idea behind our Founding Fathers' conception of the Constitution. That document called the national government into existence but strictly limited the powers of those in office.