[gonvaled]

Surely nobody can be tricked onto supporting positions contrary to his interests. That would be impossible, since people are rational, educated and perfectly informed.

There is a minority of people who are actually completely out of touch with reality, so-called demagogues and populists, and to a less extent all politians: they are completely deluded in thinking that by repeating a point a thousand times they can mislead those perfectly informed masses.