(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With the modern American Left pushing farther and farther to the Marxist fringes, it comes as no surprise that one of its mantras hails from the father of Soviet communism, Vladimir Lenin.
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth,” Lenin is quoted as having said. Fittingly, the quotation itself is likely misattributed, as are many of the famous aphorisms that we now consider to be conventional folk wisdom.
While Abraham Lincoln’s famous takedown of quotes from the internet may be words to live by, the problem with disinformation in the modern era goes much deeper.
"The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true." – Abraham Lincoln 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/geqUsLq4UM
— Brent Janse van Vuuren (@BrentJvV) January 27, 2016
Telling gullible information-consumers to vet their facts against “trusted” sources—ones that also have their own vested interests or agendas at stake—simply lures them into a false sense of complacency.
That, of course, is the precise intention of the corrupt establishment, which has the power to stamp the institutional imprimatur of officiality onto its own version of the truth. […]
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