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January 3, 2025

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960), Nods and Becks (1944), Augarde, p. 1

Reader, is this good news to you? Or bad? Explain yourself.

Generally, better educated people—one who have learned critical thinking skills, are less likely to be fooled. But they are sometimes few in number.


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