Trump supporters may be getting in line to support their mistake. Con artists are expert at getting their victims, of all people, to defend them. People defend their mistakes. "What do you think I am -- stupid?"
I introduced an article relating the vulnerability of right-leaning people to scams involving overpriced coins whose value is strictly the bouillon content... and the coins have so little metal that they are severely overpriced. Numismatic value is a function of scarcity, esthetic appeal, and metal content.
The appeal of the scam artist in selling those overpriced coins works most effectively on people on the political Right.
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(As you will notice, I do not endorse this pitch. I have no cause to believe that the Armed Forces, the CIA, the diplomatic corps, or federal law enforcement has any desire to debase American currency, which means the value of the US dollar. If any people do so, then it is politicians who loosen the money supply and open the spigots on federal spending to get re-elected, which has been a long-standing and legitimate concern of conservatives).
Potential customers are asked what their favorite FoX News Channel programs are, and someone who rejects "GOP Pravda" is rejected. Such people might go to a coin dealer who can sell some South African Krugerrands for something close enough to the bouillon price and a reasonable profit to the coin dealer. Those coins are minted in high quantities for gold coins, and nobody pretends that they have 'collector value'.
I introduced an article relating the vulnerability of right-leaning people to scams involving overpriced coins whose value is strictly the bouillon content... and the coins have so little metal that they are severely overpriced. Numismatic value is a function of scarcity, esthetic appeal, and metal content.
The appeal of the scam artist in selling those overpriced coins works most effectively on people on the political Right.
(As you will notice, I do not endorse this pitch. I have no cause to believe that the Armed Forces, the CIA, the diplomatic corps, or federal law enforcement has any desire to debase American currency, which means the value of the US dollar. If any people do so, then it is politicians who loosen the money supply and open the spigots on federal spending to get re-elected, which has been a long-standing and legitimate concern of conservatives).
Potential customers are asked what their favorite FoX News Channel programs are, and someone who rejects "GOP Pravda" is rejected. Such people might go to a coin dealer who can sell some South African Krugerrands for something close enough to the bouillon price and a reasonable profit to the coin dealer. Those coins are minted in high quantities for gold coins, and nobody pretends that they have 'collector value'.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.