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March 17, 2015

The clever propagandist lies about preposterous things, and does so incessantly.

There is another way in which the left convinces so many that up is down, war is peace, etc., and that is by telling no small lies, only grandiose ones.

Most people are in fact somewhat honest and assume that of those around them, so a person claiming that the red car right in front of the two of you is blue will be immediately seen to be liar. But if they tell you the the car is powered by a nuclear reactor, you have no immediate evidence to the contrary, except your learned sense of what is reasonable and what is not. It is not reasonable that an ordinary-looking red car encountered parked at the curb is nuclear powered, but it is not impossible either. It is ALSO not reasonable that an otherwise normal person would lie for no apparent reason in such a preposterous way! The clever propagandist lies about preposterous things, and does so incessantly. This has the effect of making "reasonable" people doubt what is "reasonable". Continue this process over years, amplify it by enlisting celebrities and other easily-duped people, and you can destroy society by destroying its sense of what is reasonable and leaving it defenseless to any lie, no matter how preposterous. Posted by Ray Van Dune : What Conservatives Suffer in a Mad World Run By Fools

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 17, 2015 11:34 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Goebbels had this down pat.

Posted by: Darkwater [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 18, 2015 1:10 AM

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