“Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
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Why do righties cling to straws? Conspiratorial thought is so odd, all these women are lying because? They are all in cahoots? That would be because? I think deep down most people know they are telling the truth, but the thought isn't allowed as it would conflict with personal bias and even the childish wish to belong. One must be a part of something even if the something is wrong or contrary to their best values. In this case it is the right wing represented by Moore, Bannon, Fox and it's apologists. Belonging matters, individual conscience not so much. The herd is a place for the weak to feel strong.
The intellectual character of conspiracy theorists | Aeon Essays
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"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: the more amiability and espirt de corps among the members of an in-group of policymakers the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and the dehumanizing actions directed at out-groups." Irving L. Janis in 'Sanctions for Evil'
This is the herd mentality at work.
8 Symptoms of Groupthink
What to read if you still think.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kierkegaard
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