When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
