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[Star Wars] How was Dooku seduced to the dark side?

It seems Palpatine had a difficult enough time convincing young Anakin to join. Anakin was at least initially going to help Windu. How in the world did Palpatine convince an older Jedi to quit cold turkey and go dark?
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Dooku was an idealist that was pretty disillusioned with all of the powers-that-be: Senate, Jedi Council, Republic in general. But in order to change that system, he'd need a lot more power than being a Count would allow. Palpatine convinced him that he agreed that the current system sucked and that there was a better way of running the galaxy, and seduced him via the power he could gain by creating a civil war and knowing enough Dark Side stuff to survive any Jedi peacekeepers who might be sent after him to stop said war.