Ben Shapiro

That's really funny.

There are a lot of people who are very skeptical of American efforts abroad.

They'll talk about American-caused color revolutions or American propaganda abroad, how terrible all that is.

Now, I'm of the opinion that some color revolutions are good and some color revolutions are bad, and many are not actually color revolutions.

Some of them...

are legitimately revolutions in countries, and we support those revolutions that were going to exist anyway.

But to pretend that our geopolitical enemies do not take advantage of our openness here in the United States in order to harm us is nonsense.

They absolutely do.

Much of what we see online is a controlled op run by the Chinese, run by the Iranians, run by the Russians.

That is why there are so many anti-American messages that seem to pick up extraordinary steam

Because every poll of American citizens shows that Americans are generally reasonable and rational people who live well within the realm of reality.

But that is increasingly untrue.

And the reason it's increasingly untrue is because people spend an awful lot of time online.

Now, there are a lot of psychological phenomena that show that individuals tend to follow the herd.

It's a very real thing.

So one psychological experiment, for example, will place a person, a normie, in a room with a bunch of other people.

And it turns out everybody else in the room, except for the normie, is an actor.

And the experimenters will go to the normie and they will show them a line of a particular length.

And then they will show them three comparative lines.

One that's longer, one that's the same length, one that's shorter.