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The phenomenon of masses believing myths, lies, and fables is as old as civilizations (How To Identify The Despotic Minority, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).
Citizens within those civilizations who manage to avoid such beliefs tend to be confounded by the cognition of their fellow citizens.
Each side is incredulous.
One widely held cultural energy that contributes to their perplexing experience is The "It Can't Happen Here" Trance.
USA culture has experienced that at maximum capacity on all sides:
"Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.
But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.
The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage. Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November."
(AP News). Thank you APNews.
In other words Bob Dylan Sings In "China".
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