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It’s like the psychology test of line lengths.

Professors would set up a classroom, with predetermined liars who promised to go along with the obvious fraud.

They would then draw 2 lines on a board and label them “A” and “B” or “1” and “2”. One line was obviously slightly longer than the other one.

There would then be an announcement by the leader that the shortest line was indeed the longest. A few folks would hold out, but beaten down by the crowd, most would eventually “confess” that the shorter line was indeed longest.

IOW, it’s somewhat proven that a lie, an obvious lie, can be promulgated as “truth” because a majority of people have a hard time standing up against constant liars.

This, IMHO, is what we’ve witnessed to an alarming degree between the years 2008-2016 (and even now). Add in the “crowd mentality” and you have huge swaths of people who will continue to propagate astounding lies; even to the destruction of their own nation.

Folks have a hard time wrapping their minds around this. I have worked with persistent pathological liars (not everyone there was) in what used to be known as “Big 6” (back then). I even had one guy trying to convince ME that I wrote the study HE wrote. People wonder how Enron happened; I know exactly how things like Enron can happen. Such a machine is pretty hard to fight. One guy who was high up wasn’t going to go along with the fraud. A call was made to the Chicago office and he was replaced with “the right man for the job”.

I stood in his face and told him what a freaking liar he was and demanded to know who put him up to such idiocy. He remained silent. I’m sure he’s prospering much better than I am these days. Oh well.....