Nigeria, Feb. 18 -- What causes a people to accept poverty as normal? What conditions lead citizens to surrender their rights in exchange for mere survival? Why does an entire generation yield its will to the machinations of corrupt and destructive leaders?

Dr. Erwin Lutzer once observed that "an economic crisis is always a gift to a leader who seeks to capture a nation."

Under the wicked Nazi regime, Adolf Hitler admitted that "even heaven can be portrayed as hell to a people through the compelling force of propaganda." World history is filled with accounts of captured populations, men and women reduced to psychological submission, broken in spirit, and mentally incapacitated by forces beyond their control. Docility has always been a p...