Betting on appearances over reality is a weak long-term strategy, especially when those appearances are false. Fictions quickly wear thin, allowing people to see through to reality, to facts that stay stubbornly in place.
President Abraham Lincoln put it more pithily: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
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