Parler, and other forums like it are the 21st Century "Jonestowns"

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10. How? If it were only stupidity and ignorance. It's personality

above all that allows large numbers of people to think truth and right and wrong are whatever they want them to be, that leads people to prefer irrational and paranoid answers over reality.

The only thing I can think of that would work over the short term is Bill Gates' chip. For the left.

On the right, a rational and responsible RW leader would do these dysfunctional people a world of good. They follow their leader, think like their leader, obey their leader; unfortunately, they first choose their leader, and we can't do that for them.

Long term, extremism on both right and left and general nuttery grow when people become frightened about the future. When people feel more secure, the syndromes shrink back to those who always are and for the rest are replaced with discussions about the new tatting craze and where to go on vacation.

We've at least made a start by electing a president even many on the right feel they know and can trust and who, above all, understands the critical need to restore that national feeling of wellbeing and security. I once hoped that two terms of Hillary's big national fixing up, with new jobs and income growth, coming after Obama's two would accomplish it, but... Those troubled times WERE the good old days in comparison, weren't they?

Just four disastrous years ago. And there's our short-term path: Learn from our own mistakes and resolve to be smarter and make more responsible decisions, because there's no other "they" citizenry who are going to hold our nation together while we get it stabilized. We're it.