A person's Willingness to believe in Absurdities is the reason that they can be Convinced to commit Atrocities. This is all by Choice. America is primed to commit Atrocities.
What I remember; what I've learned. In the Little Texas culture I lived in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr was not seen as a legitimate Christian preacher, much less a hero. But black women across the USA are now the citizens who will save our democracy.