In 1961 Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments on obedience. Basically, he set up a fake testing office whereupon two volunteers would be participants each time. Actually, there was only one volunteer each time, as the other was a confederate of Milgram acting as a volunteer. The thing worked like this: The volunteer answered an ad to be paid to participate. He ( this was done with mostly men subjects) would be the ‘ Teacher’ while the confederate of Milgram would be the ‘ Learner’. The teacher would sit in front of an electronic board with a microphone and ask the learner beyond the wall in another room a question. If the answer was incorrect he would press a button and the learner in the other room would receive an electric shock. While this was going on there would be a so called supervisor dressed in a white lab coat sitting nearby. The ‘ Supervisor’ would be in charge of the experiment, and would make sure that the ‘ Teacher’ delivered the shocks. As the wrong answers called for higher voltages each time, the so called supervisor would more or less dictate that the shocks would  continue, even if the so called ‘ Learner’ would fake crying out in pain each time. The sad result of this experiment was that 61% of the volunteer ‘ Teachers’ went the distance in sending out the highest and most dangerous ( they thought) shocks. Imagine sitting there and hearing another person almost beg you to ‘ STOP PLEASE’?

Milgram got his idea for this obedience experiment from the Jewish Holocaust and how so many German citizens bought into and agreed and yes, followed what was done to the Jews. He could not conceive of a majority of a civilization that either participated or stood by and watched the horrors afflicted on the their Jewish countrymen. Can anyone reading this realize just how far down the rabbit hole many Americans have fallen under this Trump Train? The way that Hitler mesmerized the crowds of followers is congruent to what this writer believes Mr. Trump and his regime are successful in doing. Look at the videos of his myriad of rallies, from 2015 to recently. See how he played upon the anger of his mostly white followers towards the undocumented, the gay and transgendered, the dastardly leftists, Antifa , Hamas lovers and of course the ‘ Communist/Marxist Democratic Party’. Hopefully, it will soon become too old and stale for any conman, even him. This begs the question: How high a dosage of volts will people keep sending out before this whole charade disintegrates?

PA Farruggio
September 2025