With a general election campaign going on, and Labour putting out up posters urging us to ‘fight the Tories to fight racism’, a couple of snippets from The Layman's Guide to Political Propaganda by Wexford Grosjean would not be out of place:
“In the pursuit of political aims, every lie is justified and every half-truth has double value because it contains a demonstrable element of truth, even it that truth is distorted beyond recognition from its original context.”
“We must never underestimate the corrosive power of lies. The constant drip, drip, drip of poison will eat away at the foundations of the most self-evident truth, given enough time.”
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