if you keep on repeating a lie before long enough people are fooled into believing the lie..That is the purpose and it is effective. It can be enough to inspire a riot and to appeal to those who accept theories as the truth without considering proof or evidence to the contrary. It is the supreme tool of power seeking demagogues and their supporters. Psychologists call that "the illusory truth effect".
However, as the saying goes (and falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln_: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ..
Forutunately only 29% of Americans believe Trump's mantra that the 2020 election was stolen. Unfortunately, that is more than the majority of Republicans.
I heard It Before, So It Must Be True - Scientific American Blog Network "Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the Nazi German government of the Third Reich, understood the power of repeating falsehoods. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,” he asserted, “people will eventually come to believe it.” This phenomenon, pervasive in contemporary politics, advertising, and social media, is known in cognitive psychology as the “illusory truth effect.”
You Cannot Fool All the People All the Time – Quote InvestigatorQuote Investigator: Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. Two decades later in September 1885 a version of the adage was used in a speech by a Prohibition Party politician named William J. Groo who provided no attribution for the remark. In March 1886 another Prohibitionist politician employed the saying, and this time the words were credited to Lincoln. These citations constitute the earliest evidence of closely matching statements......."
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