Gullible Person
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
A Gullible Person is a person who often trusts claims with low veracity.
- Example(s):
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Liar, Gullible Agent, Psychic.
References
2017
- http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-lies-belief-totalitarianism
- QUOTE: Compulsive liars shouldn’t frighten you. They can harm no one, if no one listens to them. Compulsive believers, on the other hand: they should terrify you. Believers are the liars’ enablers. Their votes give the demagogue his power. Their trust turns the charlatan into the president. Their credulity ensures that the propaganda of half-calculating and half-mad fanatics has the power to change the world. How you see the believers determines how you fight them and seek to protect liberal society from its enemies. And I don’t just mean how you fight that object of liberal despair and conservative fantasies, the alternately despised and patronised white working class. Compulsive believers are not just rednecks. They include figures as elevated as the British prime minister and her cabinet.