1/6 Committee Subpoenas Trump Allies - Zerlina. - TheChoice - MSNBC

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Four big players involved in Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election get slapped with subpoenas. Glenn Kirschner explains. 01/18/2022.

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1. There are lot more . ..

But these are the lower ones. Climbing up.

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2. Sometimes I still can't believe we've had to do all this to defend against a fake reality

thrown at us by a conman and his comrades.

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3. Exactly. It's like a bad movie that no one would believe.

And I often wonder what history will make of this, how it will be taught in schools, that an unqualified game show host somehow assumed the presidency, brought in equally unqualified subordinates, yet somehow managed to engage enough citizens in his lies and conspiracy theories that he came close to destroying democracy in four short years - and that he allowed a deadly virus to sweep the country, killing hundreds of thousands, yet managed to convince a sizable number of the population that it wasn't real...

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4. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.[1] The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions".[2] Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.

The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.[3]

In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. The mathematician Andrew Odlyzko pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as a leader writer in The Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash".[4][5]

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5. Thank you, that is one excellent point.

You'd think that a modern education population would be immune, but that's sure been proven wrong. We need to add another chapter to this history of mass delusions.