“Good morning Mr. and Mrs. America, and (as Walter Winchell put it) all the ships at sea. Today, Jan. 6, is Attempted Coup day in Washington, when the GOP radicals and their Pround Boy street cohort threaten to block the electoral college from voting. If they succeed, civil war. Have a nice day!”
That’s what I published, late on Jan. 5, 2021, just before the day that nearly destroyed America. I’m reposting my original Substack from that day, because the same words are still true, and my predictions all came unbearably true.
The psychological process behind believing in Trump is still the same, the percentage of Americans who believe his election lies is the same, today, as it was one year ago. No fact-checking will get around their defenses
Ask yourself if the danger to our democracy, spelled out below, is still the same. Let me know what you think.
I’ll be posting soon about “prebunking,” the more successful version of debunking. It turns out to be a lot easier to inoculate people against propaganda in advance, rather than convince them they were wrong and gullible, after the fact.
Who knew? Vaccination works.
