Public opinion is important but not for every thing.
The public opinion was convinced that the Earth is flat at the time. Their conviction didn’t make it a reality.
“Public opinion is important but not for every thing.”
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In America, not for Russia meddling/collusion farce.
“The public opinion was convinced that the Earth is flat at the time. Their conviction didn’t make it a reality.”
The Earth being flat was NEVER considered public opinion at any point (even the Ancient World knew that the world was round. In fact, probably the only thing different regarding then and the Enlightenment was that the Ancient world if anything underestimated the size of the planet, or more specifically underestimated the amount of continents on there.). That claim was made up by Voltaire and his buddies as a way to denigrate Christians and falsely prop up atheistic rationalistic Enlightenment. If anything, the whole “Earth being flat” soundbite was an early instance of fake news, not actual public opinion.