>The rest of your argument hinges on the idea that 80mil people are terribly stupid No more stupid than 60m people in Germany or 40m people in Italy or 10m peo

>The rest of your argument hinges on the idea that 80mil people are terribly stupid No more stupid than 60m people in Germany or 40m people in Italy or 10m people in Chile or 4m people in Haiti or 30m people in the Philippines or 7m people in Zimbabwe or 20m people in Venezuela etc. It doesn't require a 'stupid' population to believe the propaganda of murderous regimes; it's something any group of people is susceptible to, as we have seen time and again at great cost.