“ Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” — Hannah Arendt.
Hannah Arendt did a deep study on the authoritarian Nazi and Stalinist regimes. Her insights help us today. The current example of the application of this principle of lies is Fox News, which chose to tell its audience what Fox News knew what it’s audiences wanted to hear - that Trump won the election and it was stolen from him by the socialist/communist/anti-capitalist/anti-Christian/anti-white/ anti-man/woke deep state. And, as sworn testimony and discovered communications revealed, Fox News knew that Biden had won, and Trump had lost, and they disdained and hated Trump BUT they told the lie that their audience wanted to hear.
And some of their audience tried to overthrow the government. And about a thousand of those who did so have been arrested and charged with crimes, about half of them have pled guilty, and nearly two hundred of them are in prison. And some police died, by the way.
But, what the heck, Fox News kept its audience.
And the Trump Cult believes what the Trump Cult wants to believe.
Propaganda. A deadly weapon. Watch out.
