I would refer you and Gatito back to the quote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

The innocents that you speak of believed the absurdities. They internalized the absurdities. They embraced them to the point of accepting totalitarian actions. What makes you think that they will not willingly, enthusiastically, and gleefully commit atrocities initiated by the same experts and leaders that led them to their Jim Jones moment?