Carol Davis

“That was one of the finest qualities of the stupid, he’d decided long ago: you could contradict yourself right and left, but as long as you spoke with conviction, as long as you said often enough and loudly enough that you were right and you were strong and you had only their best interests at heart, nobody would bother to parse out what you were saying. They would, however, defend you to the death. So it didn’t much matter what he said, as long as he sounded like he himself was firmly convinced.”
― Carol Davis, Rebel State: Hidden