Groupthink

Politics has always been colored by groupthink. Political decisions have ended badly because a little group of powerful men have collectively become so fixated on a single narrow view of what they hoped to achieve that they shut their minds to anything that contradicts it.Take for example the recklessly obsessive way in which George W. Each political party of faction or grouping naturally has its own idea of how it sees the world more clearly than its rivals.

The rise of Islamic movements recently such as Al Qaeda or ISIS. Bush and Tony Blair launched their invasion of Iraq in 2003. This has shown us the power of groupthink at its ultimate extreme.

So contagious was the power of that particular form of groupthink that thousands more would-be jihadists flocked to join the cause so intoxicated by the thought of randomly killing "infidels" that they were happy to commit suicide