Why does BO spend so much time making speeches and appearing on TV?
A dictator "must gain the support of the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own but are ready to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently loudly and frequently." (The Road To Serfdom (Abridged Edition), Friedrich A Hayek; The University of Chicago Press, 1994; p 20) Anybody ever wonder how many speeches Hitler made in his climb to power? Or how often Lenin and Stalin appeared publicly? Or Mussolini? Are we seeing a repeat or at least an attempt to repeat what Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Mussolini did? Just shout often enough and loud enough and the docile and gullible will support it.
And it does not matter if what you say is true or not. In fact, you can contradict yourself with every speech, you can make promises that you know you cannot fulfill, that does not matter. Just talk loud enough and often enough and the docile, gullible will fall right in step.
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