Rod Serling: “Portrait of a bush league Fuhrer named Peter Vollmer. A sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions. And finds himself perpetually hungry for won't of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger. And to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. For something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment, Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner. A strange intersection in a shadow land called, The Twilight Zone.”

“He’s Alive,” Twilight Zone, January 24, 1963

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“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard, into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance. Then we become the grave diggers.” — Rod Serling

Believe me, you are not alone! Rod Serling was GREAT!

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twilight Zone.”

-- Rod Serling (Serling's afterthoughts from the episode, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," 1960)

There is an episode of TTZ when the late Denis Hopper plays a populist fascist type leader who plays on fears and becomes very powerful. The episode was set in America. It was Serling's way of saying, 'It can happen here too. Be careful of hateful leaders!". Were he still with us, he would look at Trump as say to us, "I warned you!".