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When an adult looks you straight in the eye (or straight into a camera) and tells preposterous lies, you may conclude one of three things: he thinks you are a gullible idiot; he actually believes what he is saying and is therefore delusional; or he is deliberately mocking.

Having encountered Kremlin “spokesmen” who state with absolute certainty that Alexander Litvinenko killed himself by accidentally dropping deadly polonium into his own tea when he had intended to murder his Russian contacts, I have faced precisely this dilemma. Is it more alarming to assume that the man spouting this nonsense might think that his listeners are fools, or that he could really believe that what he is saying is true?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/15/putin-corbyn-have-common-sacrifice-truth-power/


Sunday Telegraph columnist Janet Daley is talking about Kremin mendacity, but the question could equally well apply to the incumbent POTUS. Does Trump think that we (or his followers) are fools; does he actually believe everything he says; or is he mocking us?

The article concludes: "If you can disrupt the way people perceive and think, you can derange them and prepare them for the changes that you plan to impose. At the very least you can prevent them from believing what they are told by anyone else, or even what they see with their own eyes."
 
Hitler stated and proved, that if you tell a big enough lie and tell frequently enough, it will be believed. trumps rallies are great examples of using that technique. His repeating over and over is inculcation. that is a long tried and understood propaganda technique that religions rely on. Hitler called it the big lie. trump calls it building a wall. the real wall is walling off facts and data from the people.It has been built from the first day he ran.

Part of it is people are reluctant to believe a person running for president would tell that big a whopper. there has to be some reason he said what he did. It was explained "I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any votes'. It is a horrible thing to say about his followers. It says they believe everthing i tell them. No matter how ridiculous it is. I do not have to be honest because they will just buy it all. Daffy owns them.

this board proves it. Daffy followers say the dumbest shit and think they are revealing an esoteric truth that only insiders can understand.
 
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Nordberg said:
Hitler stated and proved, that if you tell a big enough lie and tell frequently enough, it will be believed. trumps rallies are great examples of using that technique. His repeating over and over is inculcation. that is a long tried and understood propaganda technique that religions rely on. Hitler called it the big lie. trump calls it building a wall. he real wall is walling off facts and date from the people.It has been built from the first day he ran.

Part of it is people are reluctant to believe a person running for president would tell that big a whopper. there has to be some reason he said what he did. It was explained "I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any votes'. It is a horrible thing to say about his followers. It says they believe everthing i tell them. No matter how ridiculous it is. I do not have to be honest because they will just buy it all. Daffy owns them.

this board proves it. Daffy followers say the dumbest shit and think they are revealing an esoteric truth that only insiders can understand.
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See now, that would piss me off if that was a politician who I was beginning to follow. Just the assumption by Trump that his base is a bunch of mindless drones is terribly insulting. Yet they're not only not insulted, they lap it up and beg for more!
 
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