Check out "Asch conformity experiments" [0]. The idea is that if you can make it look (make believe, basically) that the majority swings in a certain direction,

Check out "Asch conformity experiments" [0]. The idea is that if you can make it look (make believe, basically) that the majority swings in a certain direction, a large chunk of the population will simply follow EVEN IF they think otherwise. Mattias Desmet goes deeper into this in his "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WYYMR2H https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WYYMR2H