You should hear our respected PM's (PM Modi) speeches (pick pretty much any) and ruling party's (BJP) statements and you would get used to math and facts not ch

You should hear our respected PM's (PM Modi) speeches (pick pretty much any) and ruling party's (BJP) statements and you would get used to math and facts not checking out. I used to think those were just slips and mistakes. It took a couple of years for me to finally understand that those were indeed mistakes but "calculated" ones. It works like this - you declare "every household will get X by the end of 3rd year" and you know that 80% will be just euphoric to hear that and after 6 months they will forget it was 3 years - they are your fans. Once you say something they take it onto them to defend you and what you said forever, no matter how absurd it was. You will also know that out of remaining 20% like 1-2% will dig into it and out of that 1-2% a minuscule will have the guts and acumen to speak out and if they do that previous 80% will take care of this fractional percentage who speaks out either by drowning their voice with their collective noise or bully or silence them somehow. "Somehow" also includes "non-peaceful" means (very effective in silencing people).