You might be old enough to remember Joe Isuzu back in the 80s making fun of the Federal Government, who through its Federal Trade Commission protected prey (citizens) from false advertising. They said ads on radio, television or anywhere else were “required to be truthful, not misleading.”
But Joe went ahead anyway and claimed Isuzu cars and trucks had “more seats than the Astrodome… could carry a 2,000-pound cheeseburger…. and could hold the whole state of Texas!”
I once started and organization called Vote Smart that would go to war with such dishonesty, silly or otherwise. But it turned out you can say anything and some sucker or maybe a great many suckers will buy it.
My organization started at dishonesties core, politicians. They had become servants to money and self-preservation rather than The People, politicians that would put old Joe to shame. The success of dishonesty became so grotesque that one self-glorifying, consummate maligner spread over 30,000 demonstrable lies by 2022, the year I unfortunately retired.
The organization soon diminished but at its zenith forty million people including every major media journalist used it, along with more than a few political abusers looking at truth and then struggling for the means to rape it.
I left way too early and have lived sad for it ever since.
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