The Right’s Social Security Strategy: Lie Big And Lie Often

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-rights-social-security-strategy-lie-big-and-lie-often

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels’ best-known quotation is probably the following, a pithy commentary on truth and deliberate lies:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

We’ve all heard this quote at one time or another, but–perhaps fittingly–Goebbels never actually said it. The true source of the quote is unknown. Of course, Goebbels was an accomplished liar and might very well have thought such a thing, but he was also smart enough to know that successful propagandists don’t admit to being liars themselves. Rather, they accuse enemy scoundrels of lying, while steadfastly maintaining that their own lies represent the unadorned gospel truth, as Goebbels did in attacking “Churchill’s Lie Factory” in 1941:

“One should not, as a rule, reveal one’s secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

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[sasha031]

1. wonder if the seniors who voted for these thugs will have more buyers remorse