"Deceivers are generally reasonably bright."
but in this instance it's the deceivers doing the fooling and the American public that they were trying to fool.
though I suppose one has to allow that some of the more odious of them were trying to fool themselves as well(believed their own BS)
warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019