The article looks at trauma and the inability to mourn a massive social trauma and humiliation as the underlying unconscious dynamic that leads to the destruction of meaning within the individual and within a traumatized society. The loss of social meaning and the inability to make reparation through mourning often leads to an alternative “magic restitution” and to a new delusional social meaning offered by fascism and the fascist state of mind. The article uses Bion’s theory of the container-contained’ to look at the democratic state of mind, as well as the “minus container” created by the fascist state of mind that opens the gates to an accelerating deterioration of the mind and society.