“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could... See more

This is an obnoxious answer of sorts, but it’d be like: The political establishment, the leaders we have, will actually solve some of these problems, and this is the last time we’re going to have this conversation. And if you ask to talk to me a bunch of times over the next 10 years, that won’t be healthy, because it will be because these problems... See more

Falous

Falous

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Absolutely - in fact people complaining about politicians lying has always struck me as generaly being people not having the self-awareness that in many ways Politicians lying is simply Human Being Behaviour made really really painfully public -

People hedge and dissemble all the time to get along in society, but we are not generally... See more