Even well-meaning folk can 'lie' when they repeat something demonstrably false that was said by someone that they trust. People who are smart in some ways can

Even well-meaning folk can 'lie' when they repeat something demonstrably false that was said by someone that they trust. People who are smart in some ways can get fished-in by scams & frauds if they don't have the street-smarts to 'smell a rat'. 'How it is going to be' is the way it has always been. Lots of stuff happened in US history that most people alive at the time were unaware of. Those in power counted on it. We now have the means to look into statements -much- more deeply -and- quickly than anyone 30 years ago could have done ... if we know where to look. We have the tools, if we choose to use them. If not, then we'll live like the people of the past did ... pushed and shoved around by politics, religion, rumor, time.