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[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

That's the thing though. A lot of people do not bother researching and finding information themselves. That's what makes rhetoric so powerful.

And it works. Just keep repeating the lie that people want to believe and they will believe it. The bigger the better. That's what makes Trump so persuasive to morons. They want to believe these unbelievably ridiculous lies.

"A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique.[1][2] The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (1925) to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic."