The cowardly are the ones who fell for the fear propaganda. But that meant they were the ones who found it hardest to back out: once the initial lockstep took hold, it required enormous courage to say you were wrong in the face of such overwhelming group conformity and peer pressure.
The wickedness of what was done to these people has no excuse. Nonetheless, evil is a thing, and the lesson is that we need to be on constant watch for new schemes to bypass our defences and subvert us "in our own best interest". A missold sense of duty to one's fellow man is deadly.
Many of them are still going to double down instead of admit they were wrong. This is the fooked up part.
Mass formation psychosis. The masses rational thinking became irrational when they could not process what they saw and were told. It is the weak minded’s way to feel they are right. They will submit to violence before they will change. Happened in Germany in the 1940’s and in Salem witch trials. These are dangerous times for us truthseekers.
