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“The corruption in all this has been supernatural, and the fact that, until late 2024, seventy-million Democratic Party American voters thought this was all okay is extra-supernatural. What happened to their minds?”

This is a reasonable question, addressed by a pair of important books. In 1896 Gustave le Bon pondered the bizarre events following the French Revolution and wrote The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. He concluded that occasionally societies collectively run off the rails – suffer…

A more simple explanation would be just two words. "Group Think." A very dangerous phenomenon.

Two words don't explain "why," which is the question posed by Jim in the first place.

Maybe totalitarianism is a reaction by a government which considers itself under threat by groups of people that it alienated. I believe that people, like everything , are bipolar in nature. Not the disease but the natural fact that for any opinion there will be an equal and opposite opinion by someone else. So the positive job of government is to consolidate the opposing opinions into one “patriotic” common cause. Look at us right now. Both sides at a 50-50% split. Half want liberty and justic…

I have doubts that a "fifty-fifty" split is natural, or even real. We are taught that our two corrupt parties are adversarial when they are, in fact, symbiotic, sharing positions on the big stuff, like serving corporate interests and endless wars. The corporate press helps assure their perpetual parity by representing every election as a horse race, which sells their product.