[Knitting A Conundrum]

That's a good way of putting it...an active blindness....

[pinz-n-needlez]

Any ideas why?

I can only thin that they saw something else, but what?

Or they 'wanted' to see something else. Something mesmerized them into being distracted... what or who was that?

But then these are people who thought Communism could provide Utopia, even after they knew the history of Stalin, Lenin, etal.