There is no proof that Abe Lincoln ever said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” But this doesn't alter the obvious truth of it.
Politicians, down the ages, have been great followers of it, sometimes even using it to confuse their enemies. ( Think Cats Eyes Cunningham in WW2).
Conjurers are the greatest exponents of the art as they Entertain us, (and irritate us at the same time because we are unable to work out how they do it.)
Until recently it was left to the local gossips to mislead us with tales that were less than wholly truthful.
But everything changed with SOCIAL MEDIA.
Anybody who wants to can propagate any tale they want.
It doesn't have to be true, and they don't have to prove a thing.
But, or so it seems, there are enough gullible souls, out there to take any gibberish that appears on a screen, as being TRUE.
(I almost said Gospel Truth, but that would open up yet another can of worms
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I understand that Fox News, in The USofA have recently lost a Court Case and had to pay around Three Quarters of a BILLION US$ comp to the makers of Vote Counting Machines for pushing Trumps claim that he won but the machines were faulty, even when The News Company knew that this was false,
Trump and some of his supporters are STILL Claiming he won, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
And I'll close with another quote, this one ATTRIBUTED to Phineas T Barnum.
THERES A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE.
