The question--perhaps for social scientists, psychologists, etc--that I think still needs answering--both in Brazil, apparently, and here in the U.S.--is how do you counteract or address what can only be described as an "outbreak" of mass hysteria that leads to a Jan 6th occurrence, of which the Brasilia riots appear to have been eerily similar.We've still got maybe 30 million Americans believing the Big Lie, and a smaller hardcore follower group that threatens violence. I have no idea what the numbers are in Brazil--but the larger question is: how do we move forward from here? What are the steps to healing the society? And how do we address the lasting fallout that comes from opening the sort of Pandora's boxes which Bolsonaro and the former guy both opened (and did so gleefully.)

The question--perhaps for social scientists, psychologists, etc--that I think still needs answering--both in Brazil, apparently, and here in the U.S.--is how do you counteract or address what can only be described as an "outbreak" of mass hysteria that leads to a Jan 6th occurrence, of which the Brasilia riots appear to have been eerily similar.We've still got maybe 30 million Americans believing the Big Lie, and a smaller hardcore follower group that threatens violence. I have no idea what the numbers are in Brazil--but the larger question is: how do we move forward from here? What are the steps to healing the society? And how do we address the lasting fallout that comes from opening the sort of Pandora's boxes which Bolsonaro and the former guy both opened (and did so gleefully.)

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