Think we've learned most people are easily impressionable or hateful or both with how easily they get swept up in things that disturb us, and its unfortunately a minority that aren't despite being no more privileged, educated, or smarter than peers.

I guess its kind of like gambling as an example where no matter how much people try and dissuade others from falling into it their attempts fall on deaf ears to the majority actions. And its not that people who don't fall into it are smarter.

Sometimes the issue is that the vast collective is just already set on their own course of action, and we're just taken along for the ride due to their vast numbers and drowned out.