Our leaders are dancing to a tune only the insane can hear

The present day mass hypnosis of our political leaders and their minions,  especially in the 5-eyes countries, will go down in history as the longest and the most deadliest of  plagues, not brought on by an actual life-threatening mass killing disease, but a plague of utter madness of the few who rule over the many.  

The dancing plague took over a city and before it ended a month later many lives had been lost before the hypnosis loosened its grip on  hundreds of the citizens.  Before I read this article, I was under the impression that the dancing plague had occurred at only one time in history and in only one place... Strasbourg.   Turns out, that's not true.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518

"......... According to Waller, the Strasbourg poor were primed for an epidemic of hysterical dancing. First of all, there was precedent. Every European dancing plague between 1374 and 1518 had occurred near Strasbourg, along the western edge of the Holy Roman Empire..............