If you tell a lie long enough, people start believing it as the truth.
“If you tell a lie long enough, people start believing it as the truth.”
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Yes, and sometimes they become memes and people believe them just because they believe them and refuse to listen to anyone who questions those beliefs. Man made global warming is such a meme, it is believed without question by millions who cannot tell you any reason they believe it other than they have believed it for years and don’t want to rethink the question. The same people think anyone who questions Obama’s eligibility to be president is crazy but there is at least ten thousand times more evidence to support the belief that Obama is NOT eligible than there is to support belief in man made global warming. A high percentage of people do not want to do the hard work of thinking and learning, it is much easier to be “cool” and go along with the crowd.
I suspect that the percentage of people who admit to making decisions based on emotion and refusing to think about whether they might be wrong about their cherished beliefs is very, very small. I KNOW that the percentage of people who do anything resembling clear headed reasoning is very, very small.