Are we to believe that a poll was taken of how people felt after an event which then traveled backwards in time to before the event and was then communicated to

Are we to believe that a poll was taken of how people felt after an event which then traveled backwards in time to before the event and was then communicated to the group which will cause the event in the future? This is actually what is required to argue with what I wrote. The topic is "what were these people thinking in taking these actions?" My reply was "there were similar actions in the past which resulted in trivial punishments." Would amending my reply to "there were similar actions in the past which resulted in trivial punishments and no one took seriously anyway" somehow have made the group that entered the Capitol less likely to have done so? If so, please explain.