He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad
Orion's Cold Fire
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Sir Winston Churchill would agree.
Unfortunately rhetorical skill works equally well for both the good and the evil cause.
How true. We have not taught our children to be discriminating and to check sources and compare articles one against another. Apparently, public schools teach that only liberal mass media is pravda, and that Fox or any conservative outlet (and many neutral ones) are lies. I would sooner read Charlie Hebdo than watch MSNBC. I was taught in school that one source was never enough. But that was back in the days when editors of newspapers had integrity and wanted the truth as best as could be determined. Never one source portrayed as fact. Past editors of the… Read more »
The only good thing about their dishonesty is that it has made it pretty easy to flip the people in the middle. Now, there aren’t many of them left but anyone with even a flicker of honesty recognize that honesty and even sanity no longer exists in the Leftist Narrative. In a way we should thank them for completely dispensing with rationality.