truth is whatever you can get away with.

Truth is whatever you can get people to believe it is. Religionists have been doing this for years, why not politicians  ? They're more or less in the same game of selling dreams and they do it in the same way; not by proof but by consistent repetition of underlying motifs.

It's why pols are more religious than the electorates, it's where they learned their trade.

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