Um, people PREFER to be deluded and promised all the sweet things needed that prop up their belief systems. Hence the world is chock full of shysters, hucksters

Um, people PREFER to be deluded and promised all the sweet things needed that prop up their belief systems. Hence the world is chock full of shysters, hucksters and snakeoil salesmen. I mean, case in point: who occupies the Oval Office?