In every age, every people is continually ravaged by foreign and domestic fraudsters. In America, fraud-based government quickly followed a brief “idealistic period”, echoing the same downward spiral that destroyed Athens, Sparta, Israel, and Rome.
To be effective in raising taxes, fraud must be based on fear. “The ozone hole will cause cancer and death. So will second-hand smoke, too much salt, too little salt, alar, sunshine, freon, chocolate, alcohol, x-rays, antibiotics, industry, agriculture, etc. If we are not killed with chemicals and radiation, we will be destroyed by foreign terrorists. They are poor people who are right to be angry with us for having so much. Our group can save the world from some of these problems, but we need additional funding and controls to be truly effective.”
Another type of fraud is based on the grossest deception. “We know that SAT scores are going down. We have cured the problem by recentering the tests.”
Deception often morphs into fear. “If we do not raise taxes to provide better public education, we will be destroyed by future inability to understand math, science, and engineering.”
Catholic Fundamentalists automatically assume that anything they hear on government controlled frequencies, aside from the first minutes of actual disasters, has been edited to maximize profit to favored groups of exaggerators. Actual disasters, like tsunamis, are quickly converted to propaganda for various alarmist groups.
What one Catholic writer once said about a far-left author, “Everything she says is a lie, including the ‘ands’ and the ‘thes.” usually applies to all media. All the time.
