In the classic short story about groupthink, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” by Hans Christian Andersen, peer pressure is the glue that reinforces the mass delusion that the naked emperor is actually decked out in splendid new clothing. The characters trip over each other to profess their belief in a lie.
Radicals today rely on a similar mechanism to enforce a new party line that is a lie. Well, make that two lies. The first is that human beings, like the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, can change their sex. The other lie is that human beings can change their race.
Talk about the power of positive thinking.