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Screengrab of Dr. Colbert setting his guest author and enemy combatant, Naomi Wolf straight about her belief that she can predict the ten steps she says would-be dictators use to close down an open society or crush a democracy uprising. Stephen correctly identifies her fears as mere self-fulfilling prophecy: if you fear the government enough,m you're going to start doing things that the government doesn't like, then they have to crush you, "The Colbert Report", September 19, 2007.